Shirley Horn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it.
-- Shirley Horn

#Song #Important #Musician
I have learned that all you give is all you get, so give it all you got.
-- Shirley Horn

#Giving #I Have Learned #Give It All You Got
Let me whisper it. Let me sigh it. Let me sing it, my dear or I will cry it.
-- Shirley Horn

#Jazz #Cry #Sigh
It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.
-- Shirley Horn

#Oscars #Rachmaninoff
There's a place in Paris where I'd like to work one day. It's called the Slow Club.
-- Shirley Horn

#Paris #One Day #Clubs

Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.
I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.
If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.
I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.
Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.
I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.
I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

Shirley Horn famous quotes

You may also like: