Wes Montgomery Quotes

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• I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.
• I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He…
• I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's.
• If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.
• You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of other…
• Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano. There are a…
• To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to accept, because it…
• I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is to move from…
• A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they…
• Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one…
• It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it,…
• Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.
• When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.
• I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

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