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Jazz Guitarist Inspirational Quotes (1065)

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Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.
Amy Winehouse
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But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.
Charlie Hunter
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But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
Tom Waits
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Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
Amy Winehouse
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I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.
Amy Winehouse
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In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this sound out there that's just a little bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going.
Bill Frisell
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Our media are completely lost in a wilderland of moral equivalence, eagerly prostituting themselves to monsters and terrorists.
Charles Foster Johnson
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Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.
Robert Fripp
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You know, we just buy music now. We don't make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it's so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
Tom Waits
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We did a really cool video for this song [Milquetoast] with Alex Winter from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure fame. He's an extremely intelligent guy. Butch Vig also did a mix for The Crow movie.
Page Hamilton
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Your limitations create your sound.
Norah Jones
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The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.
Kevin Eubanks
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When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
Carlos Santana
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
Alan Kay
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Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
Derek Bailey
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You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.
Toots Thielemans
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For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
Eddie Condon
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Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.
Eddie Condon
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... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.
Jeff Beck
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I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
Amy Winehouse
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I strive for honesty in playing what I feel.
Kenny Burrell
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
Tom Waits
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Now its raining its pouring the old man is snoring now I lay me down to sleep I hear the sirens in the street all my dreams are made of chrome I have no way to get back home I’d rather die before I wake like Marilyn Monroe and throw my dreams out in the street and the rain make ‘em grow
Tom Waits
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To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.
Bill Frisell
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