George Shearing Quotes
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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.
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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.
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In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.
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I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.
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Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.
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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.
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You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it.