George Shearing Quotes & Sayings
18 most famous George Shearing quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American musician who passed away on 14 February, 2011.
“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.”
“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.”
“I don't think you can contrive any sound.”
“In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.”
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