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Jazz Guitarist Inspirational Quotes (1065)

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I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.
Amy Winehouse
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I don't care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that shit.
Amy Winehouse
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You would never catch me in a miniskirt.
Norah Jones
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I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.
Tom Waits
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The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!
Tom Waits
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
Alan Kay
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Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed the way we think about music and who took jazz to a new level. So jazz is suffering from that. But we still have a lot of incredible people playing jazz in the world. We have a lot of people leading the way.
George Benson
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I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.
Pat Metheny
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George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.
Tom Waits
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There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
Carlos Santana
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Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.
Don Paterson
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Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.
Madeleine Peyroux
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I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.
Wes Montgomery
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Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.
Amos Lee
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Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at best - at worst, those terms often serve as code words for what is in fact a cultural / political discussion more than a musical one.
Pat Metheny
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I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.
Kevin Eubanks
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My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.
Amy Winehouse
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I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.
Tom Waits
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Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
Robert Fripp
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You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.
Fred Frith
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
Tom Waits
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I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
David Knopfler
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Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.
Robert Fripp
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There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.
Fred Frith
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