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 Read 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 Read Quote
Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs. Marian McPartland Read 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 Read Quote
I would really hate to have e-mail. It’s bad enough with all the mail I get. Marian McPartland Read 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 Read 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 Read Quote
I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what’s happening. Marian McPartland Read 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 Read Quote
