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Jazz Musician Inspirational Quotes (6947)

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Women have been held back and limited throughout the centuries. Creation could not have been rendered, not even considered, let alone be brought into manifestation without woman. She is principal, a powerful energy. She is first.
Alice Coltrane
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...That is one of the main causes of this arrogance: the idea of power. Then you lose your true power which is to be part of all, and the only way you can be part of all is to understand it. And when you don't understand, you have to go humbly to it. You don't go to school and say, 'I know what you're going to teach me'.
John Coltrane
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The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
Fiona Apple
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I learn something new every day.
Stan Getz
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A first love always occupies a special place.
Lee Konitz
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen
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I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.
Meshell Ndegeocello
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It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
Chet Baker
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South Carolina State Rep. Mike Pitts wants to ban money.
Charles Foster Johnson
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And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
Eric Clapton
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I needed a huge amount of energy to cope with my life. I had a huge amount of energy where stuff was concerned: it was as if all this unconscious material had been unleashed.
David Toop
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I'm basically a musician.
Squarepusher
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Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things they are my way of communicating.
Viggo Mortensen
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Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.
Squarepusher
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If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
Duke Ellington
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I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.
Phil Collins
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I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received.
Bill Dixon
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I am a huge Prince fan. It's a very rare thing for him to have people open for him. It's been the Time and Sheila E., and that's about it. Building a relationship with him has been like a dream come true. I've been looking for a mentor, and I feel like I have that in him.
Jill Scott
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Things are more beautiful when they're obscure.
Veda Hille
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My first memories of life were in rehearsal thats why I can sleep through anything.
Robert Glasper
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I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.
William Christopher Handy
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I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.
William Christopher Handy
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With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.
William Christopher Handy
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You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin
William Christopher Handy
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