Quotes by John Tesh - Page 2

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew my jazz background, suggested I try big-band music, so we spent a year experimenting with it in concert, and the audience reaction was really good.
John Tesh / Pianist
Audience
Jazz
Song
White
Good Music Song
Background
Director
Concert
Experimenting
Music Director
Reaction
Spent
Suggested
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I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd go out for three or four days beforehand and play Christmas carols on our horns.
John Tesh / Pianist
Christmas
Guy
Hate
Horns
Three
Trombone
Venture
Always Hate Me
Played
Beforehand
Days
Friend
Trumpet
Christmas Me Always
Mine
Moneymaking
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'Entertainment Tonight' would send me out to do interviews with musicians like Sting and Coldplay, and I was able to watch how they plan their shows. The late Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead always had a game plan, but he also was flexible if he had to change something at the last minute.
John Tesh / Pianist
Able
Entertainment
Flexible
Game Plan
Grateful
Interviews
Jerry
Shows
Tonight
Change Always Me
Also
Game
Dead
Change Always Game
Coldplay
Change Game Me
Watch
Grateful Dead
Last
Minute
Musicians
Plan
Send
Sting
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I guarantee you that the people who watch 'Conan O'Brien' or who watch 'Entertainment Tonight' and probably a lot of these other programs have never heard of Operation Blessing. Maybe they have heard of UNICEF, and I'm sure they have heard of the Red Cross, but they haven't heard of this organization.
John Tesh / Pianist
Blessing
Conan
Entertainment
Heard
Organization
Red
Tonight
Unicef
Sure
Cross
Watch
Guarantee
Programs
Maybe
Operation
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When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assignments were. I was working on the Tour de France bike race and the Barcelona Olympic Games, and those songs tend to be very big, very bombastic-type music, which is the type of music that I love to write.
John Tesh / Pianist
Assignments
Barcelona
Bike
Events
France
Games
Olympic Games
Type
Love Music Big
Mostly
Olympic
Tend
Tour
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We never want to go into a tour and play 15 songs and say 'Enjoy.' We have messages: Number 1, follow your dreams. If I can do it, you can do it. Number 2, give your life to something. We say, 'Volunteer and add seven years to your life.' You can have your own personal ministry. The message we have is 'What do you stand for?'
John Tesh / Pianist
Add
Enjoy
Follow Your Dreams
Messages
Ministry
Seven
Volunteer
Years
You Can Do It
Life Dreams Your
Stand
Number
Follow
Life Dreams Your Dreams
Give
Personal
Tour
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I worry a lot about what people think. I worry people think I'm not helping them enough, that they don't like my music, that I'm playing a song too fast or talking too fast. I worry my wife isn't happy with our relationship... I'm afraid somebody's going to take my career away from me. That it's going to go away, or I'm going to get fired.
John Tesh / Pianist
Helping
Talking
Worry
Afraid
Fast
Fired
Go Away
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Big band music, to me, it really has three key elements. First is the lyrics are really sweet, and they're just really family-friendly. The second thing is the music is jazz music, so the music is complicated enough to hold your attention for 5 or 6 million plays. That makes the songs interesting. The last part is the fact that it's danceable.
John Tesh / Pianist
Attention
Band
Complicated
Elements
Jazz
Jazz Music
Sweet
Music Me Jazz
Big Band
Family-Friendly
Hold
Lyrics
Million
Plays
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