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" I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get. "
Marian McPartland
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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 make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains. "
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You
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" I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening. "
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Need
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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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" The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything. "
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" I like minor tunes. "
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Minor
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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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Think
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" Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts. "
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Concerts
Young
" I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know. "
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Party
Know
Birthday
" By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill. "
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Got
Thrill
Big
" My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano. "
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You
Look
Think
" Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs. "
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Anything
Writing
Trouble
" There are a million good tunes. "
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Million
Good
Tunes
" I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place. "
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Rhythm
Got
New
" 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 do something else. "
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Think
Something
I Think
" 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 house that I would be sitting in front of for hours. "
Marian McPartland
House
Front
Sitting
" I love to play in the different keys like B or F sharp, or keys that most people don't play in, because they have a better resonance or something. I'm really not fond of F and C. I just stay away from those if I can. "
Marian McPartland
I Can
Play
People
" 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 it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it. "
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Me
You
Place
" Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos. "
Marian McPartland
Funny
Know
Outfit
" I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works. "
Marian McPartland
Things
Too
Works
" I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well. "
Marian McPartland
Just
Yamaha
Good