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

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"Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame."

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"I felt ashamed.""But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?""No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal.""But how could you help that?""Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?"

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"I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that."

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"It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do."

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Amber Hurdle

"I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame."

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Amber Hurdle

"We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan."You only say that because you have no shame."

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"She told me that women who wore makeup had bad values. Putting on makeup would have been a statement-a rebellion. I didn't try it. I grew to feel guilty for wanting to feel attractive."

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"One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush."

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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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"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."
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"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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"So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me."
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"As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great."
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"Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs."
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"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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"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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"Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out."
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"I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get."
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