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Born: 1918-03-21
Profession: Musician
Nation: English
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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.

Tags: Birthday, Last, Trying

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.

Tags: Friend, Her, Once

Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.

Tags: Getting, Show, Young

As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.

Tags: Great, Time, Working

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.

Tags: Boy, Hope, Quietly

By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.

Tags: Big, Grammy, Thrill

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

Tags: Place, West, York

I like minor tunes.

Tags: Minor, Tunes

I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.

Tags: Bad, Getting, Keep

I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.

Tags: Bad, Enough, Hate

I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.

Tags: Good, Soon, Yamaha

I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.

Tags: Changing, Sometimes, Works

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

Tags: Nobody, Trouble, Writing

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.

Tags: Else, Head

There are a million good tunes.

Tags: Good, Million, Tunes

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

Tags: Away, Shame, Stuff

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.

Tags: Hours, House, Risk

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.

Tags: Funny, Good, Job

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.

Tags: Away, Love, Stay

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.

Tags: Might, Started, Thinking

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.

Tags: Good, Hands, Playing

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.

Tags: Feeling, Place, True

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.

Tags: Big, Enough, House
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