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Top 25 Marian McPartland Quotes (2025 Update)

Marian McPartland Quote: “As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it’s great.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “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.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “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.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “Well it’s because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it’s a shame.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “Boy, I’m just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they’ll look around and get my record out.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “There are a million good tunes.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “I’d just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “I would really hate to have e-mail. It’s bad enough with all the mail I get.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I’ve got them spread out all over the place.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “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.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “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.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “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.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “I’m not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “So if I think of something in my head I don’t have to do it. If I can’t do I don’t do it, I do something else.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “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.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “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.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “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.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what’s happening.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling – for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker.”
Marian McPartland Quote: “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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