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Charlie Byrd

(1925–1999) Guitarist

10 quotes in 85 categories

Charlie Byrd was a guitarist, best known for Lowering Life Stress Levels.

Quick Facts About Charlie Byrd

Born: September 16, 1925
Died: December 2, 1999
Profession: Guitarist
Notable works: Lowering Life Stress Levels

About Charlie Byrd

Charlie Lee Byrd was an American jazz guitarist who played fingerstyle on a classical guitar. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. In 1962, he collaborated with Stan Getz on the album Jazz Samba, a recording which brought bossa nova into the mainstream of North American music.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Charlie Byrd

The guitar chose me.

Chose

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A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Design

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A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can

Mean

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And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

Affair

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I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim,…

Antonio

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Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later…

Admirer

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That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.

Ends

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We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

Jam

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Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Becoming

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The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar…

Armstrong

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