Quotes by George Shearing - Page 1

I don't think you can contrive any sound.
George Shearing / Pianist
Contrive
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Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.
George Shearing / Pianist
Inhibit
Popular
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We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.
George Shearing / Pianist
Journey
Half
Years
Travelling
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In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.
George Shearing / Pianist
Braille
Firsts
Notes
Writing
Note
Sign
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Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.
George Shearing / Pianist
Exercise
Taste
Way
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I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.
George Shearing / Pianist
Foundation
Jazz
Roots
Thinking
Void
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You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it.
George Shearing / Pianist
Certain
Knows
Stuck
Established
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My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.
George Shearing / Pianist
Affiliation
England
Facts
Borne
Periodic
Visits
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Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.
George Shearing / Pianist
Music
Creativity
Firsts
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If you establish an identity, you build a monster-and thats right, youve got to live with it. Of course, you can enjoy it, too.
George Shearing / Pianist
Enjoy
Identity
Monsters
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Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.
George Shearing / Pianist
Equipment
Degree
Develop
First Place
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I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.
George Shearing / Pianist
Music
Tired
Years
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Perfect retention. I dont think I could do that-Ive never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.
George Shearing / Pianist
Discipline
Perfect
Thinking
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Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it. I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.
George Shearing / Pianist
Discipline
Improvisation
Retention
Suppose
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When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.
George Shearing / Pianist
Music
Dog
People
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The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.
George Shearing / Pianist
Movement
Orchestra
Piano
Play
Works
Concerto
Mozart
Plays
Programme
Terminate
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All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard.
George Shearing / Pianist
Musical
Family Age Me
Crystal
Foundations
Pick
Tune
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Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that its much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.
George Shearing / Pianist
Law
Play
Thinking
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Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.
George Shearing / Pianist
Easier
Harmony
Obeying
Teddy
Wilson
Little While
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I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.
George Shearing / Pianist
Next Time
Time Always Better
Assume
Time Better Always
Current
Duke
Pleased
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I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947.
George Shearing / Pianist
Holiday
Immigration
London
Sold
Three-Month
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When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.
George Shearing / Pianist
Charlie
Intermission
Night
Pianist
Play
Rays
Ella
Hank
Ray
Smith
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I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.
George Shearing / Pianist
Teacher
Blind
Compulsory
Boarding
Different Schools
Schools
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I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.
George Shearing / Pianist
Couple
Piano
Sitting
Thinking
Avoid
Awful Lot
Likely
Recently
Taping
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I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing.
George Shearing / Pianist
Demand
Greater
Music Business
Precarious
Business Music Better
Exactly
Exactly What
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