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Mel Torme

To me, nostalgia is nothing m...

To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.

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Mel Torme

I want to sing for the broade...

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

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Mel Torme

I would be a liar if I said i...

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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Mel Torme

It may sound a bit like an ar...

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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Mel Torme

Whenever I did a good perform...

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.

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Mel Torme

See, I never wrote arrangemen...

See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

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Mel Torme

Because Chicago was to radio ...

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

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Mel Torme

Right now, my career is in th...

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.

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Mel Torme

I didn't really have an act p...

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.

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Mel Torme

But, in fairness to them, too...

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

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Mel Torme

As Buddy Rich, for instance, ...

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.

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Mel Torme

I was a singer professionally...

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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Mel Torme

I hadn't been a recording art...

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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Mel Torme

As a singer, the biggest joy ...

As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.

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Mel Torme

As regards my feelings about ...

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

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Mel Torme

Since the advent of Benny Goo...

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.

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Mel Torme

I'm going to continue to talk...

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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Mel Torme

Whenever I did a good performa...

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 24 quotes
Mel Torme

I didn't really have an act pe...

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 24 quotes
Mel Torme

Right now, my career is in thr...

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.

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