Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Cy Coleman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American composer Cy Coleman.

Last updated on April 16, 2025.

Cy Coleman was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.

American - Composer | June 14, 1929 - November 18, 2004

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

Cy Coleman

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

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

Cy Coleman

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

Cy Coleman

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

Cy Coleman

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

Cy Coleman

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

Cy Coleman

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

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My background was in performing originally.

Cy Coleman

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

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

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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.

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Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Cy Coleman

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