"There isn't a dearth of it, but I……" — Mel Torme
"There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past."
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Mel Torme
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24 Quotes by Mel Torme
Mel Torme has 24 quotes on this site.
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To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.
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I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.
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Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the…
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Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken…
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But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
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I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to…
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I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.
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Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub…
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As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums,…
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It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some…
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As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.
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Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.
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More Arrangement Quotes
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one of 254 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
— Aristotle
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the…
— Aristotle
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
— Bella Abzug
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent…
— Erik Erikson
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I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees…
— Tony La Russa
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A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's…
— Roberto Burle Marx
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In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
— Will Durant
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Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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