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"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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"A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa."
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"I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste."
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"What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense."
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"I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste."
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"My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing."
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"I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes."
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"I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's."
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"I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers."
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"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."
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"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."
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"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

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

"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

"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."
Funny

"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."
Birthday

"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."
Taste

"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

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

"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."
Friendship

"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."
Thinking
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