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Marian McPartland

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"Feelings have the divine attracting power. Feelings are the only link between you and everything around you."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs."

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Donna Grant

"And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized."

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Donna Grant

"My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that."

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Donna Grant

"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today."

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Donna Grant

"My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them."

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Donna Grant

"Feelings are the language of the heart. Everything else is static noise."

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Donna Grant

"You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway."

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Donna Grant

"I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward."

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Donna Grant

"I've suffered too much to hide my feelings."

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Marian McPartland
"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."

Being

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Marian McPartland
"As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great."

Time

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Marian McPartland
"Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs."

Music

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Marian McPartland
"I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get."

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Marian McPartland
"Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame."

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Marian McPartland
"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."

Feelings

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Marian McPartland
"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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Marian McPartland
"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."

Love

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Marian McPartland
"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."

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Marian McPartland
"Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out."

Hope

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