"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
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"Sometimes it's the mistakes that end up leading you into new territory .. like the guitar solo on 'Peelin' Taters' - I had some speaker problems, but the tone ended up sounding better than if I had new speakers .. it's a 60's Nashville, 'uptown' thing"
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"The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it."
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"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."
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"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all."
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"If the King loves music, it is well with the land."
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"The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas."
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"Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets."
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"The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story."
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"Mozart is sweet sunshine."
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"In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music."
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"I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great."
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"Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong."
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"Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight."
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"If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you."
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"I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man"
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".. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive"
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"At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song."
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"Don't be afraid, just play the music."
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"Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born."
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