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"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."
"I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston."
"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen."
"I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops."
"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
"Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago."
Explore more quotes by Mel Torme
"There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past."
"Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two."
"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."
"I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America."
"Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money."
"How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen."
"I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album."
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