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Mel Torme

"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."

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"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."

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"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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"How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen."
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