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Jazz Guitarist Inspirational Quotes (1065)

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According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
Robert Fripp
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
Gary Lucas
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
Carlos Santana
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No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.
Carlos Santana
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If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.
David Knopfler
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Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
Robert Fripp
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and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades
Tom Waits
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Whenever I work on the computer, I have folders and you know how you always give everything working titles, if you have a riff or a motif or a chord progression or a lyric written on a page, it's just a line or a word or something so I always give everything a working title when I'm making a folder.
Page Hamilton
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
Tom Waits
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I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.
Norah Jones
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Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier
Tom Waits
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People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a jazz guitar player. Wes Montgomery was a jazz guitarist, Joe Pass was a jazz guitarist (laughs).
Larry Carlton
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Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.
Desi Arnaz
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Angels cry because they want to experience what you and I feel: the moment. They live in eternity. They dont know what it is like to read a newspaper and get ink on your fingers. They dont know what it is like to take your shoes off and wiggle your toes under the dinner table.
Carlos Santana
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
Neal Barnard
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It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.
Leon Redbone
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The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone
Tom Waits
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We've played it [Milquetoast] a million times. When you play a song that much you sort of become disconnected with the lyrics. It's just another song essentially about people's opinions and being told how to live your life even though they may have less life experience than you have.
Page Hamilton
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I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.
Tom Waits
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I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.
Billy Eckstine
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Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.
Kevin Eubanks
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I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.
Les Paul
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I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
Amy Winehouse
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I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it.
Eugene Chadbourne
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