Cy Coleman Quotes (14 Quotes)

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.

It's like The Life in that it focuses on the people who inhabit a specific world, which this time is the very distinctive world of jazz.

I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released.

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

To make them work, I rewrote some verses and additional lyrics and they are working very well. It's going to be a very exciting production.

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

My background was in performing originally.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.