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1. "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
2. "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
3. "Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio." ~ Mel Torme
4. "Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money." ~ Mel Torme
5. "But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in." ~ Mel Torme
6. "I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America." ~ Mel Torme
7. "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
8. "My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer." ~ Mel Torme
9. "Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year." ~ Mel Torme
10. "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
11. "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
12. "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
13. "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
14. "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
15. "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
16. "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

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