Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Parkinson

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

I'm very fond of piano players.

It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

I was a purist bore.

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.

I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.

It reassures parents that we are aware of the employment difficulty and that we are doing as much as we can to provide information to their sons and daughters, and to help them deal with the post-graduate reality.

So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.

Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better.

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