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Jazz Guitarist Inspirational Quotes (1065)

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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
Tom Waits
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I did my time in the jail of your arms
Tom Waits
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If a dog happens to catch a rabbit or another animal, it can very easily remove the hide. If a cat catches a squirrel, they have no trouble with that. But if a person does that, they will work all day and all night to get the skin off of an animal, because they don't have long canine teeth anymore.
Neal Barnard
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I'm not a very dark person.
Norah Jones
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School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.
Alan Kay
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When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!
Barney Kessel
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My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.
Kenny Burrell
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Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.
Derek Bailey
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I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.
Antonio Carlos Jobim
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I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.
Kevin Eubanks
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You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.
Andy Summers
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I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.
Tom Waits
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As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.
George Benson
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Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.
Robert Fripp
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The dark covers me and I cannot run now.
Amy Winehouse
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
Alan Kay
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My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought up in that atmosphere.
Madeleine Peyroux
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I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.
Billy Eckstine
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I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.
Kevin Eubanks
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They tried to make me go to rehab, I said 'No, no, no,'
Amy Winehouse
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I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.
Marc Ribot
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If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.
Billy Eckstine
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I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.
Tom Waits
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You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.
Billy Eckstine
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