"You know, John Coltrane has been sort of……" — Wes Montgomery
"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 musicians. He had it. When you hear a cat do a thing like that, you got to go along with him. I think I heard Coltrane before I really got close to Miles [Davis]. Miles had a tricky way of playing his horn that I didn't understand as much as I did Coltrane. I really didn't understand what Coltrane was doing, but it was so exciting the thing that he was doing..."
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14 Quotes by Wes Montgomery
Wes Montgomery has 14 quotes on this site.
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I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.
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I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard…
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I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow…
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If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.
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Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play…
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To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard…
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I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My…
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A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after…
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Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't…
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It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having…
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Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.
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When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.
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