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Jazz Guitarist Inspirational Quotes (1065)

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It's hard for me to pry with people I know.
Norah Jones
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It wasn't good for my nerves, that kind of work - a fireman. I've got high blood pressure. I get upset easily. I don't think that was a proper career alternative for me.
Tom Waits
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It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time.
Chet Atkins
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If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.
Amy Winehouse
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The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15.
Desi Arnaz
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People say my content's mature, I don't think it's mature at all. I'm just a normal 20 year old. I'm opinionated.
Amy Winehouse
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You can't sing about love unless you know about it.
Billy Eckstine
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From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles
Pat Metheny
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I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?
Jeff Beck
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Chevrolet was puzzled when they discovered that their sales for the Chevy Nova were off the charts everywhere but in Latin America. They finally realized that Nova in Spanish translates to no go. Not the best name for a car... anywhere no va.
Tom Waits
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You get out of life what you put into it ... simple
Tommy Emmanuel
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I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.
Andy Summers
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Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn't endorse Barack Obama, but that's just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama.
Charles Foster Johnson
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
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I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.
Tom Waits
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All the different styles I've played have really helped me as a guitarist and helped me develop my own way of playing.
Tommy Bolin
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The science is in knowing the art in perceiving.
Robert Fripp
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There are any number of players with extensive jazz backgrounds who haven't been able to fit into other styles, It all boils down to taste, to playing what's appropriate for the context in which you're working.
Larry Carlton
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
Alan Kay
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Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.
Tom Waits
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I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.
Tom Waits
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using parking meters as walking sticks.
Tom Waits
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
Tom Waits
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The latest thing that has caught me by surprise is Maryanne Amacher. I like sound that affects the listener physically. Traits such as complexity or simplicity don't really become a factor then. It's just the sound that I pay attention to.
Kevin Drumm
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