"I recorded with Hank (Jones) a number of times, usually on dates where Milt was unavailable, and I thought he was the perfect pianist. He had a beautiful touch, knew all the best ways around the chord changes, and swung mightily. And he brought an air of cheerful competence to every date, making us all feel that it would be possible to make some very good music that day."

-- Bill Crow

#Beautiful Quotes #Piano Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“At the end of the day, even if my part is a bit goofy, the key thing is that I'm doing what I love to do, and that's to make people laugh.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I got my start by giving myself a start.”
“I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent to performer.”

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“[B]y far the larger number of the dreams... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly, with some subtle magnetic or other atmospheric state, seems therefore to be that most open to impressions of the kind.”
“Everyone has a mad half-hour once a month.”
“I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.”
“I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.”
“You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.”

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