Top 42 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.
Marian McPartland
#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.
Marian McPartland
#3. Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.
Marian McPartland
#4. Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.
Marian McPartland
#5. You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty.
Danny Glover
#7. I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.
Marian McPartland
#8. 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.
Marian McPartland
#9. Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.
Serena Williams
#11. Chose the niche that you enjoy, where you can excel and stand a chance of becoming and acknowledged leader.
Richard Koch
#13. I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.
Marian McPartland
#14. Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.
Marian McPartland
#15. If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
Richard Russo
#16. Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.
Marian McPartland
#17. As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.
Marian McPartland
#18. One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.
Marian McPartland
#19. 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.
Marian McPartland
#20. I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.
Marian McPartland
#21. 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.
Marian McPartland
#22. I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.
Marian McPartland
#23. Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?
Ilchi Lee
#24. 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.
Marian McPartland
#25. One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a fault but he wasn't reckless with his money, which was rather rare in Hollywood. He'd grown up with nothing and he wasn't about to fritter it all away.
Jennifer Grant
#28. 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.
Marian McPartland
#29. It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.
Daniel Ellsberg
#30. Am I odd?Is there something wrong with me,like Mrs.Tifton Said?"
Skye knelt down on the wet grass and looked straight into Batty's eyes. "No you stupid idiot,there's nothing wrong. with you.
Jeanne Birdsall
#31. I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.
Whoopi Goldberg
#32. 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.
Marian McPartland
#33. By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.
Ram Dass
#34. The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.
Marian McPartland
#36. 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.
Marian McPartland
#37. I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.
Marian McPartland
#38. 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.
Marian McPartland
#39. Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc ... ) and their truths don't "count" as either present and important in society or worth Pulitzer prizes as characters in literature.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#40. What was the point of giving children freedom to experiment and fail, if one then turned it all into a tiresome object lesson?
Laura Lippman
#41. I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything
Marian McPartland
#42. 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.
Marian McPartland
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