Cy Coleman Quotes

"We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it."
- Cy Coleman
(Related: December, First)

"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."
- Cy Coleman

"Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already."
- Cy Coleman
(Related: Artist, Songs, Writer)

"So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country."
- Cy Coleman
(Related: Country, Jazz)

"To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good."
- Cy Coleman

"My background was in performing originally."
- Cy Coleman

"I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time."
- Cy Coleman
(Related: Time)

"I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better."
- Cy Coleman
(Related: Profession)

"I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released."
- Cy Coleman
(Related: Love)

"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."
- Cy Coleman
(Related: Trouble, Trying)

"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!"
- Cy Coleman
(Related: Life, Money, People)