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George Shearing

"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."

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"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."

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"I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula."

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"It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One."

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"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"

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"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."

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"Under each formula lies a corpse."

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"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."

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"Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula."

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"I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races."

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"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."

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"I try not to do anything by formula."

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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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"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."
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"We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year."
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"Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's 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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I don't think you can contrive any sound."
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"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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"My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits."
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"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."
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