Cy Coleman Quotes

#1. To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

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#2. I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

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#3. Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

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#4. I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released.

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#5. Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

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#6. I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

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#7. So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

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#8. My background was in performing originally.

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#9. We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

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#10. I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

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#11. When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

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#12. I'm trying to get hold of them ... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.

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