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Jazz Guitarist Inspirational Quotes (1065)

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Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.
Carl Orr
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Viewed up close, nobody is normal.
Caetano Veloso
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I don't like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable.
Norah Jones
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If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.
Les Paul
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All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way
Larry Coryell
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Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.
Bill Frisell
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In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.
Norah Jones
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Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.
Tom Waits
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Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
Tom Waits
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The main thing in my life...is that I really need to go home and practice.
Pat Metheny
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I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do
Pat Metheny
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Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Charlie Byrd
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Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.
Nat King Cole
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
Carlos Santana
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Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.
David Knopfler
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A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.
Amy Winehouse
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Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.
Chet Atkins
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To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.
Amy Winehouse
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Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!
Toots Thielemans
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Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.
Carlos Santana
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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
Alan Kay
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I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.
Fred Frith
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Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.
Norah Jones
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I was a fireman. I lived in the fire sta­tion for about a year. The pay wasn't so good. It was kind of like being in the army, or what I imagine that would be like.
Tom Waits
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