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Jazz Quotes by Wes Montgomery
- 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,…
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- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
- You blows who you is. — Louis Armstrong
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and… — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
- I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat,… — Travis Barker
- And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. — Travis Barker
- Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren G. Bennis
- I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned… — Steven Adler