Quotes by Marian Mcpartland - Page 1

I like minor tunes.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Tunes
Minor
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There are a million good tunes.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Music
Jazz
Tunes
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By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Bigs
Grammy
Thrill
Way
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I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Steinway
Wells
Yamaha
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One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Men
Oscars
Piano
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The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Blue
Keys
Yellow
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I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Affection
Sometimes
Fond
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I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Enough
Hate
Mail
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Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Song
Trouble
Writing
Nowadays
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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 Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Boys
Looks
Records
Quietly
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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.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Long
My Own
Stills
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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 Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Get Up
Knees
Needs
Happening
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Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Record Companies
Records
Stuff
Thinking
Commercial
Companies
Pumping
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I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Play
Records
Teens
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Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Concerts
Listeners
Ours
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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 Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
New York
Rhythm
Rhythm Section
Spread
West
West Coast
Section
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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.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
I Can
Ifs
Thinking
Something Else
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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 Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Brain
Might
Thinking
Brains
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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.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Good Taste
Hands
Piano
Taste
Thinking
Up And Down
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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 Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Computer
Hours
House
Risk
Sitting
Would Be
Front
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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.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Space
Accommodate
Covered
Dining
House
Kitchen
Records
Turmoil
Big Enough
Dining Room
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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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Bankers
Cat
Guy
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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.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Birthday
Smile
Birthday Party
Last Year
Next Year
Party
Trying
Years
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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.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Fall
Feelings
Mary
Play
Minor
Tune
Williams
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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 Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Fax
Long
Long Way
Sound
Me Long Way
Once A Week
Send
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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.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Keys
People
Play
Resonance
Love Better People
Fond
Sharp
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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 Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Jobs
Good Job
Piano
Providing
Years
Years Ago
Bought
Gibson
Outfit
Pianos
Seemed
Suddenly
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Duke Ellington is my choice for many reasons. Nobody has written so many great pieces of music, which are everlasting, and he has made them available to the world through his orchestrations of his work in a unique way. Lastly, he was himself a fine pianist. He covers the entire musical spectrum with his genius.
Marian Mcpartland / Jazz Pianist
Choices
Musical
Unique
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