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Marian McPartland

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa."

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Donna Grant

"I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste."

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Donna Grant

"What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense."

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Donna Grant

"I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's."

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Donna Grant

"I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers."

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Donna Grant

"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."

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Donna Grant

"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."

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

Music

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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."

Funny

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Marian McPartland
"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

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Marian McPartland
"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

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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
"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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Marian McPartland
"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

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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."

Thinking

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