Marian McPartland Quotes

#1. Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling
for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker.

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#2. I love to play in the different keys like B or F sharp, or keys that most people don't play in, because they have a better resonance or something. I'm really not fond of F and C. I just stay away from those if I can.

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#3. Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.

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#4. Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

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#5. I like minor tunes.

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#6. I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.

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#7. I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

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#8. There are a million good tunes.

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#9. By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.

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#10. I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.

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#11. Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.

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#12. Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

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#13. As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.

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#14. One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.

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#15. So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.

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#16. I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.

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#17. That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.

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#18. I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

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#19. My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

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#20. At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

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#21. Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.

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#22. The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.

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#23. It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

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#24. I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.

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#25. So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.

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#26. I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

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#27. The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.

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