Mel Torme Quotes
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.
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My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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My whole career - I have been really lucky.
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The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.
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I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
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I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.
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If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.
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Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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You need a continuous picture of how things are evolving, and not a slow series of snapshots where you don't know how frame A is related to frame B.
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If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.
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My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.
