"Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs."

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Source : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

Marian McPartland

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“[Addressing a group of military officers:] Are you a feminist? Oh ... wrong question. I should have asked, 'Are you a father?' When your daughter loses her job to a clearly less-qualified man, you will discover you are a feminist.”
“Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.”
“If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.”
“A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.”
“We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.”
“The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.”
“I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places I'm really no good to you.”
“Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass.”

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