If you establish an identity, you build a monster-and that's right, you've got to live with it. Of course, you can enjoy it, too.
More Quotes from George Shearing:
You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it.George Shearing
I have never applied myself to learn a piece of music away from the instrument. I sit down at the piano, read a bar, then play it.
George Shearing
I've always felt that it's necessary for me to add to the sound, as on the Capitol albums with strings or brass, rather than to change it entirely.
George Shearing
We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.
George Shearing
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
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
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