Advertisements
George Shearing Quotes
Advertisements






Advertisements
Text Quotes
Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you (George Shearing Quotes)
I don’t think you can contrive any sound (George Shearing Quotes)
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 (George Shearing Quotes)
I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we’re always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time (George Shearing Quotes)
I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947. (George Shearing Quotes)
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. (George Shearing Quotes)
Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste (George Shearing Quotes)
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 (George Shearing Quotes)
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 (George Shearing Quotes)
You know, when you’ve established a certain thing, what can you do? You’re stuck with it (George Shearing Quotes)