Cy Coleman Quotes

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

Life, Money, Put

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

Love, Albums, Bunch

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

Time, Long, Used

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

Keep, Getting, Lucky

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

Trying, Trouble, Hold

My background was in performing originally.
Cy Coleman

Background, Performing, Originally

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

Enough, Artist, Since

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

Country, Jazz, Clubs

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

Someone, Playing, Started

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

Good, Put, Musician

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

Two, December, Directing

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

Mother, Old, Four

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: June 14, 1929

Died: November 18, 2004

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