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Jazz Guitarist Inspirational Quotes (1065)

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...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.
Pat Metheny
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What I do and what I record only work for the moment.
Leon Redbone
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We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.
Charlie Byrd
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It was a hubba, hubba, ding dang, baby you are just everythang.
Tom Waits
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I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand
Tom Waits
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I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
Nat King Cole
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And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.
Toots Thielemans
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It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.
Tom Waits
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I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid.
Bill Frisell
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Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.
Derek Bailey
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He said, I'm better off without her, until I showed him my tattoo.
Tom Waits
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I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.
Norah Jones
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Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.
Tom Waits
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Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!
Eddie Condon
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In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.
Kevin Eubanks
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I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.
Madeleine Peyroux
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
Tom Waits
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My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.
David Knopfler
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord
Carlos Santana
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I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.
Kevin Eubanks
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
Alan Kay
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I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.
Norah Jones
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We gotta see-saw until we unthaw those Popsicle toes.
Michael Franks
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Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
Norah Jones
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