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Jazz Guitarist Inspirational Quotes (1065)

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There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.
Amos Lee
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Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.
Pat Metheny
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Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.
Tom Waits
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There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.
Norah Jones
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...and I'm standing on the corner of Fifth and Vermouth.
Tom Waits
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I can't do anything but play guitar.
Tommy Bolin
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You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.
Tom Waits
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
Alan Kay
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If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
Andy Summers
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Charlie Appleyard can be anybody but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.
Derek Bailey
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I really love things with melody.
Norah Jones
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians.
Walter Becker
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Don't let your hands dictate what you think you can do. Look at fingerboard charts and imagine your eyes dancing on the notes you want to play, and forget about whether your hands can do it or not. Just try it.
Allan Holdsworth
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
Tom Waits
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I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up.' They came to me.
Amy Winehouse
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You want a little talent on that?
Chet Atkins
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I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America.
Page Hamilton
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Jesus Christ, this godamn rain, will someone put me on a train.
Tom Waits
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Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to make it, it was no use copying Charlie
Barney Kessel
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I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.
Jesse Harris
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If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you've got something.
Jeff Beck
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All that you've loved is all you own
Tom Waits
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.
Tom Waits
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I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown. He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down.
Amy Winehouse
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