George Shearing famous quotes

04-17-2025

Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.
-- George Shearing

#Exercise #Way #Taste
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

#Music #Tired #Years
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

#Night #Play #Rays
We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.
-- George Shearing

#Journey #Years #Half
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

#Identity #Monsters #Enjoy
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

#Thinking #Discipline #Perfect
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

#Thinking #Law #Play
Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.
-- George Shearing

#Music #Creativity #Firsts
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

#Music #Dog #People
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

#Play #Piano #Movement

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