I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
My mother said that if I went off and joined the quartet, I would end up marrying a musician and living in… — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington is my choice for many reasons. Nobody has written so many great pieces of music, which are everlasting, and he… — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue. — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs. — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works. — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works. I'm trying to get the record that I made at my… — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
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… — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame. — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
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.… — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
At Guildhall Id sneak into a rehearsal room, play a jazz tune by Art Tatum or something, and a professor would say, Stop playing… — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
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… — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
