"To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a……" — Mel Torme
"To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace."
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24 Quotes by Mel Torme
Mel Torme has 24 quotes on this site.
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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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Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.
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More Commonplace Quotes
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,…
— Cecil Beaton
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
— Samuel Butler
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Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick…
— George Carlin
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark…
— Willa Cather
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and…
— Jean Cocteau
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It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very…
— William J. Clinton
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In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see…
— Blaise Pascal
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Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the…
— William James
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Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial…
— Cesare Pavese
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Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may…
— Samuel Smiles
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In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned…
— Christopher Fry
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