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Jazz Guitarist Inspirational Quotes (1065)

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It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.
Norah Jones
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I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He sounded so good and it sounded so easy, so I bought me a guitar and an amplifier and said now I can't do nothing but play! Really, welding was my talent, I think, but I sort of swished it aside.
Wes Montgomery
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I love what I do, so I don't mind working.
Amos Lee
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I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.
Kevin Eubanks
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I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.
David Torn
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I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.
Amy Winehouse
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Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.
Gary Lucas
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If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.
Joe Pass
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I'm much healthier now.
Amy Winehouse
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I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.
Amy Winehouse
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I blew my voice out and the doctor said, don't even talk for a week.
Tommy Bolin
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Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.
Marc Ribot
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John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator.
Larry Coryell
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If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.
Tom Waits
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I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.
Marc Ribot
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.
Tom Waits
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Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.
Steve Tibbetts
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When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.
Tom Waits
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I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
Tom Waits
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Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.
Tommy Bolin
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
Alan Kay
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When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street in a dress and a funny hat and nothing's gonna make it rain. I go through periods - or spells - when I'm more receptive.
Tom Waits
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In 2010, I had been playing guitar for 50 years.
Lee Ritenour
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The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.
Les Paul
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