#trademark

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#jazz #limit #many #personal #personal style

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— E.A. Bucchianeri

#culture #culture-identity #culture-making #disclaimer #funny

I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway! ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#approach #b-movie #call #crew #deal

A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject. ↗

— James Wolcott

#chair #defies #his #king #larry

My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#adapt #adaptation #become #came #did