Marian McPartland famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#New York #West #Coast
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

#Thinking #Brain #Might
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

#Long #Stills
By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.
-- Marian McPartland

#Way #Thrill #Bigs
I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.
-- Marian McPartland

#Knees #Needs #Walks
I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.
-- Marian McPartland

#Hate #Mail #Enough
I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.
-- Marian McPartland

#Yamaha #Steinway #Wells
Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.
-- Marian McPartland

#Song #Writing #Trouble
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

#Thinking
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

#Jobs #Piano #Years
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

#Thinking #Piano #Hands
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

#Space #House #Kitchen
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

#House #Risk #Needs
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

#Play #Keys #People
There are a million good tunes.
-- Marian McPartland

#Music #Tunes
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

#Birthday #Party #Years
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

#Cat #Guy #World
Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.
-- Marian McPartland

#Thinking #Stuff #Records
I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.
-- Marian McPartland

#Affection #Sometimes
Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.
-- Marian McPartland

#Boys #Looks #Records
I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything
-- Marian McPartland

#Play #Records #Teens
The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.
-- Marian McPartland

#Keys #Blue #Yellow
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

#Long #Fax #Mail
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

#Fall #Play #Feelings

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