Richard M. Sherman

“There's a great big beautiful tomorrow, shining at the end of every day.”

“Don't you draw the line somewhere? You have to still have a conscience.”

“We don't write for children. We write for the child in all of us, and we're not going to dumb down our material.”

“Music is a universal language. It's a wonderful, wonderful thing.”

“Walt Disney was a great storyteller.”

“There's so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to talk about the rest of us.”

“We always felt that we were writing a story in song. It's a different kind of song-writing.”

“If you have a great song, it can be a terrible recording. But if you have a terrible song, you can't have a great recording.”

“Our whole object was to be simple and honest and tell a story in a song.”

“Any time you can make people happy, you're a success.”

“The word 'humble' is a great word. It's a great word and it's a great feeling.”

“The truth of the matter is, if you have a great story, the songs will write themselves.”