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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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"I don't want to do anything in bad taste."

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Donna Grant

"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

"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."

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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

"The Knower of 'taste' is the Soul. The enjoyer of 'taste' is not the Soul."

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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."

Hate

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

Shame

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Marian McPartland
"The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything."

Kitchen

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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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