39 Quotes by Mel Torme
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I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.
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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’m going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.
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As regards my feelings about drummers – there’s Buddy Rich, and then there’s everybody else.
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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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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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Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he’s a genius, and that’s all there is to it.
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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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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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