Shirley Horn quotes
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“Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it.”
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“I have learned that all you give is all you get, so give it all you got.”
-- Shirley Horn#Giving Quotes #I Have Learned Quotes #Give It All You Got Quotes
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“Let me whisper it. Let me sigh it. Let me sing it, my dear or I will cry it.”
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“It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.”
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“There's a place in Paris where I'd like to work one day. It's called the Slow Club.”
-- Shirley Horn
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.
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“I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.”
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“Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.”
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“You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.”
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“Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.”
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“I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.”
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