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Jazz Guitarist Inspirational Quotes (1065)

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I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!
Pat Metheny
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Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains.
Tom Waits
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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
Andy Summers
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Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!
Nat King Cole
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The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.
John Scofield
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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
Carlos Santana
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Overall, our population is in the worst shape it's ever been. Children are in terrible shape. We have absolutely unprecedented numbers of obese and overweight children - one in three now. A generation ago it was something like one in ten.
Neal Barnard
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I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.
Amos Lee
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An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
Desi Arnaz
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Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!
George Benson
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When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.
John Scofield
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Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
Amy Winehouse
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I think some bands thrive on the idea of changing instruments. When they're off their real instrument, the ability to go very far from the original idea is reduced.
Tom Waits
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I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
Tom Waits
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Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.
Barney Kessel
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When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind of go, 'Sure. Sure you are, son.'
Tom Waits
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
Alan Kay
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I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.
Nat King Cole
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I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.
Amos Lee
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I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
Nat King Cole
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
Tom Waits
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The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.
Kevin Eubanks
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People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has not fallen, if they are really shoveling in the steak, they don't lose weight.
Neal Barnard
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I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
Tom Waits
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