Marian McPartland Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.”
-- Marian McPartlandSource : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
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“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 McPartlandSource : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
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“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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“By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.”
-- Marian McPartlandSource : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
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“I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.”
-- Marian McPartlandSource : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
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“I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.”
-- Marian McPartlandSource : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
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“I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.”
-- Marian McPartlandSource : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
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“Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.”
-- Marian McPartlandSource : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
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“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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“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 McPartlandSource : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
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“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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“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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“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 McPartlandSource : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
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“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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“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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“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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“Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.”
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“I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.”
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“Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.”
-- Marian McPartlandSource : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
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“I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything”
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“The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.”
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“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 McPartlandSource : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
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“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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