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Clare Fischer Quotes

1928–2012 United States

Douglas Clare Fischer (October 22, 1928 – January 26, 2012) was an American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader, best known for his innovations in the fields of Latin jazz and vocal arranging (as well as his integration of the two), and for his preeminent position among late 20th-century orchestral arrangers of popular music.

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Johnny has never written a tune – at least none I've ever heard – that wasn't melodically and harmonically perfect.

the liner notes from Songs for Rainy Day Lovers (1967)

My God, I heard this guy's albums for ages and finally to be able to look at him and see how he does it!"

I'm two people. One is a teddy bear who is soft and cuddly. And the other is this guy who says, "Don't push me."

I am one of the best kept secrets in jazz history. Many of my early records are hard to find and it is still difficult to release new ones.

They disenfranchised me. It's like giving an award to Woody Herman's sax section, but not Woody, for "Early Autumn."

I relate to everything. I'm not just jazz, Latin or classical. I really am a fusion of all of those; not today's fusion, but my fusion.

I firmly believe that the more one is exposed to bossa nova, the less one is interested in how he can fit it to his jazz concept and the more he becomes interested in what his improvisation can do for bossa nova.

You get tired of dealing with how other people think of what you're doing. It finally gets to the point where you realize that if you're going to do it the way you want, you have to do it yourself. That might mean putting up the money to do it yourself.

Crassness of youth
Concluding only half of the truth,
Exuding only one small percent
Of what I surely felt for you.
And then one morning
That brought a day so gently
We set apart
Things of the heart
And lost love long ago.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Clare Fischer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.