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Jazz Guitarist Inspirational Quotes (1065)

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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
Nat King Cole
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Of all the things that your company owns, brands are far and away the most important and the toughest. Founders die. Factories burn down. Machinery wears out. Inventories get depleted. Technology becomes obsolete. Brand loyalty is the only sound foundation on which business leaders can build enduring, profitable growth.
Jim Mullen
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We went to South America on a trip and all I had was a Robert Johnson album. So that's a definite influence on the album. My bandmates John [Stanier, drummer] and Henry [Bogdan, bassist] were interested in expanding their roles as writers, so that had a positive impact on the record.
Page Hamilton
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The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.
Tom Waits
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The music has generated all the techniques I use. When I sit down to learn to play something . . . it is not because I want to master a technique. It is because I want to hear what an idea sounds like.
Pat Martino
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A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'
Carlos Santana
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
Alan Kay
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Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.
Amy Winehouse
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My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
Carlos Santana
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That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
Charlie Hunter
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I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
Tom Waits
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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
Carlos Santana
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As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.
John Abercrombie
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The Music was like Electric Sugar
Tom Waits
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I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.
John Scofield
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One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart
Carlos Santana
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I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This is a band with lots of heart & soul.
Daryl Stuermer
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There's no point in saying anything but the truth.
Amy Winehouse
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There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.
Don Paterson
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My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.
Robert Fripp
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Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.
Tom Waits
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I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.
Jeff Beck
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Disposicion a transformacion personal es clave para Iluminacion Global.
Carlos Santana
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They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.
Tom Waits
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