Earl Hines famous quotes

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You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.
-- Earl Hines

#Music #Shoes #People
I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
-- Earl Hines

#Memories #Thinking #Play
I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.
-- Earl Hines

#Ivory #Water #Challenges
I always thought jazz was like the trunk of a tree. After the tree has grown, many branches have spread out. They're all with different leaves and they all look beautiful. But at the end of the season, they fold back up and it's still the tree trunk.
-- Earl Hines

#Beautiful #Tree #Looks
If you see me up there on the stand smiling, I'm lost!
-- Earl Hines

#Lost #Ifs

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster
Cinderella's glass shoe was the perfect size.... so why did it slip off as she ran?- It must have been to attract the attention of Prince Charming.. I don't see any other explanation
Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

Earl Hines famous quotes

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