Top 38 Mel Torme Quotes

#1. So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #5125
#2. Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.

Phil Ramone

Mel Torme Quotes #21231
#3. Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.

Malgorzata Szumowska

Mel Torme Quotes #95230
#4. My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #112391
#5. As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #153603
#6. As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #196397
#7. I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #240466
#8. See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #334700
#9. It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #414585
#10. Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis ... This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance.

Adrian Davis

Mel Torme Quotes #442994
#11. There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #455931
#12. Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #490119
#13. The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset.

Seth

Mel Torme Quotes #490871
#14. The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

Robert Breault

Mel Torme Quotes #567094
#15. You're the most important person in the world to
me." I quickly added in a hushed voice, "Don't tell Mom. She'll be jealous.

Kim Harrington

Mel Torme Quotes #587221
#16. Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #593503
#17. You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

Ronald Reagan

Mel Torme Quotes #620399
#18. How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.

Mel Torme

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#19. Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

Ovid

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#20. Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #680920
#21. I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #768370
#22. Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

Thomas Fleming Day

Mel Torme Quotes #953484
#23. I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #1145968
#24. In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mel Torme Quotes #1153806
#25. Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #1215773
#26. Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #1216653
#27. Do you really believe that the moon isn't there when nobody looks?

Albert Einstein

Mel Torme Quotes #1239755
#28. In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Mel Torme Quotes #1242103
#29. I hope that I have gained the reputation of being someone that would do anything. I think that that's an admirable reputation to have if you're an actor.

Joe Lo Truglio

Mel Torme Quotes #1270614
#30. But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #1575048
#31. To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #1605516
#32. Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.

Mel Torme

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#33. I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

Mel Torme

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#34. I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #1667852
#35. As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #1686602
#36. I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #1693762
#37. When I was done, his arms were spread wide above his head, secured by the black ties at his wrists. he looked like a dark god who was being punished.

Chloe Blaque

Mel Torme Quotes #1709587
#38. Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.

Mel Torme

Mel Torme Quotes #1844267

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