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Jazz Guitarist Inspirational Quotes (1065)

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I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.
Pat Metheny
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If you want money, buy lottery tickets. If you love music, practice and keep your overhead to the bare minimum. Keep your promises, who you are is more important than what licks you know to any band leader.
Steve Morse
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There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that.
Tom Waits
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People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.
Eugene Chadbourne
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When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can't tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico.
Desi Arnaz
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
Alan Kay
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But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.
Robert Fripp
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I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.
Les Paul
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The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.
Barry Finnerty
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it they'll just make another one.
Tom Waits
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The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.
David Knopfler
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If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.
Nat King Cole
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
Tom Waits
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It was easy for viewers to identify with our show. The characters were believable.
Desi Arnaz
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
Tom Waits
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I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
Alan Kay
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Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.
Hugh Hopper
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Basically, I live to do gigs.
Amy Winehouse
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I like playing in other projects.
Jesse Harris
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I was already playing the clarinet and the piano. My father's a piano player. But I wanted to play in a funk band, and the clarinet wasn't fit. So you was Hey, man, can I sit in? They're like, No, man. So I started fooling around with the bass.
Marcus Miller
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As a kid, image played a huge part. I'm sure most kids find the image of the guitarist exciting.
Kevin Drumm
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slept all night in the cedar grove, i was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin' for the holy grail, but there ain't nothin' sweeter than ridin' the rails
Tom Waits
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound
Pat Metheny
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
Gary Lucas
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