Marian McPartland Quotes

Well it’s because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it’s a shame.

There are a million good tunes.

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.

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.

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.

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.