Quotes by Mel Torme - Page 1

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.
Mel Torme / Musician
Audience
Want
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My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.
Mel Torme / Musician
Baby
Careers
Singers
Singer
Initial
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As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.
Mel Torme / Musician
Arrangements
Joy
Singers
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Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.
Mel Torme / Musician
Buddy
Genius
Kind
Rich
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Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.
Mel Torme / Musician
Last Year
Lasts
Talking
Years
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To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.
Mel Torme / Musician
Music
Jazz
Past
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As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.
Mel Torme / Musician
Buddy
Drummer
Feelings
Rich
Drummers
Everybody Else
Regards
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Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.
Mel Torme / Musician
Making Money
Purpose
Records
Purely
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I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.
Mel Torme / Musician
America
Children
Dramatic
Eight
Radio
Busiest
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But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
Mel Torme / Musician
Fairness
Shallow
Song
Perform
Per
Medium
Popular
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Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.
Mel Torme / Musician
Broadway
Chicago
Hollywood
Hub
Radio
Theatre
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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.
Mel Torme / Musician
Liars
Lovely
Lying
Single
Soothing
Album
Hit
Word
Liar
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See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.
Mel Torme / Musician
Arrangements
Band
Special
Together
Garland
Judy
Material
Strictly
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Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.
Mel Torme / Musician
Movie
Uncles
Dad
Affair
Fans
Love Affair
Love Good Movies
Began
Performance
Rabid
Underlying
Whenever
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As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.
Mel Torme / Musician
Age
Business
Break
Broke
Buddy
Instance
Rich
Thinking
Three
Drums
Singer
Indeed
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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.
Mel Torme / Musician
Albums
Artist
Long
Scene
Singers
Album
Contents
Recording Artist
Varied
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Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.
Mel Torme / Musician
Men
Magic
Void
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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.
Mel Torme / Musician
Four
Nine
Play
Years
Begin
Drums
First One
Instrument
Till
Professionally
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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.
Mel Torme / Musician
Appreciate
Believe
People
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Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.
Mel Torme / Musician
Careers
Giving
Precedent
Two
Arranger
Author
Directions
Marks
Opposed
Performer
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How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.
Mel Torme / Musician
Eight
Fifteen
Memories
Radio
Years
Close
Hundreds
Memory
Till
Radio Shows
Span
Thousands
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So I'm sorry, 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.
Mel Torme / Musician
Appreciate
Sorry
Believe People More
Believe People Talk
Human Being
Performer
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I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.
Mel Torme / Musician
Eight
Here I Am
Nine
Quiet
Song
Theatrical
Per
Opposed
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There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.
Mel Torme / Musician
Fifteen
Harder
Ten
Arrangement
Invest
Confess
Dearth
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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.
Mel Torme / Musician
New York
Truth
Army
Book
New York Times
Article
Aside
Laid
Review
Section
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