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"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."
"I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston."
"In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics."
"I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days."
"I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered."
Explore more quotes by Mel Torme
"I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage."
"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."
"It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section."
"So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer."
"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."
"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
"Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money."
"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."
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