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Mel Torme

"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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"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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"Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film."
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"As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements."
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"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."
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"I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old."
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"Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year."
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"I want to sing for the broadest possible audience."
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"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
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