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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
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Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.
Marian McPartland
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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
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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
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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.
Marian McPartland
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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
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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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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
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I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.
Marian McPartland
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I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.
Marian McPartland
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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
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I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.
Marian McPartland
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Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.
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I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.
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