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Jazz Musician Inspirational Quotes (6966)

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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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Anytime you strike the drums, you have to be aware that you're creating a musical event.
Vinnie Colaiuta
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You can't be everything. Nobody is everything. You just do what you do, and you try to do that as well as you can. And if somebody doesn't like it, too bad.
Vinnie Colaiuta
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I just want to continue developing as a musician. I love playing. I also want to be more involved in composing, doing my own thing, I hope to continue to be in different situations that I can nurture and that will nurture me.
Vinnie Colaiuta
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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
Andy Summers
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To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.
Archie Shepp
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