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George Shearing

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

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Donna Grant

"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

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Donna Grant

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

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Donna Grant

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

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Donna Grant

"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."

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Donna Grant

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

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Donna Grant

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

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Donna Grant

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

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Donna Grant

"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

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Donna Grant

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

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George Shearing
"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."

First

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George Shearing
"I don't think you can contrive any sound."

Sound

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George Shearing
"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."

Chance

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George Shearing
"Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place."

Creativity

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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."

Discipline

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George Shearing
"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."

Home

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George Shearing
"We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year."

Months

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George Shearing
"My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits."

Fact

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George Shearing
"I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing."

Business

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George Shearing
"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."

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