"My mother said that if I went off……" — Marian McPartland
"My mother said that if I went off and joined the quartet, I would end up marrying a musician and living in an attic. And I did!"
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Marian McPartland
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29 Quotes by Marian McPartland
Marian McPartland has 29 quotes on this site.
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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,…
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Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with…
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Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.
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I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.
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Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.
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I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything
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The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.
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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…
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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…
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The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered…
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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…
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As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time,…
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More Attic Quotes
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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.
— Stephen King
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I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail…
— Ann Hood
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The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past.…
— Ernest Lawrence
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While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all…
— Robbie Robertson
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I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and…
— Laurence Olivier
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Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and…
— Barry Nelson
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer
— Peter Ustinov
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At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She…
— Erica Jong
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My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and…
— Michel Gondry
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A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some…
— Paul Muni
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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