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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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that."

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Donna Grant

"The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located."

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Donna Grant

"I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.'"

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Donna Grant

"I had to have a large kitchen because I look to cook."

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Donna Grant

"The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me."

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Donna Grant

"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands."

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Donna Grant

"I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast."

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Donna Grant

"I am spoiled, it's true. I don't even know how to use that thing in the kitchen with the burners."

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Donna Grant

"Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again."

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Donna Grant

"My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables, for that matter."

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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
"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
"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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