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Jazz Musician Inspirational Quotes (6947)

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I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.
Andy Summers
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I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.
Andy Summers
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Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.
Andy Summers
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In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.
Andy Summers
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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
Andy Summers
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If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.
Andy Summers
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
Andy Summers
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I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
Andy Summers
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I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
Andy Summers
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There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
Andy Summers
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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
Andy Summers
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Im better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.
Andy Summers
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The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.
Ornette Coleman
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I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.
Etta James
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I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.
Branford Marsalis
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I listen a lot to the incredible young artists who are coming through, which is something that just wasn't possible during Apartheid. That's the way I learn.
Letta Mbulu
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All four winds together can't bring the world to me Shadows cast a play of light, so much I want to see Chase the sun around the world, I want to look at life-In the Available Light. I'll go with the wind, I'll stand in the light.
Neil Peart
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I strongly believe that the more positive my vibration is, the clearer my message will be. I keep my negative thoughts from infiltrating my pathway and my dreams. Other people's thoughts are none of my business.
Erykah Badu
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I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.
Norah Jones
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If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.
Viggo Mortensen
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Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
Lawrence Welk
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God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.
John Coltrane
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Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.
Anthony Braxton
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Love is eternal for as long as it lasts.
Vinicius de Moraes
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