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“When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.”

Play Music Couple Yeah South Blow Gates Hello Sleepy Gabriel Duets Playing Up

Author:Louis Armstrong

“The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to play newgrass you have to go through the school of bluegrass. You know, maybe Jack Black can make a movie now called School of Bluegrass . That would be cool.”

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Author:Sam Bush

“I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.”

“I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but I have plenty of respect for that style of playing.”

Way I Can Play Music Player Style Standards Jazz Plenty Turf

Author:Jorma Kaukonen

“The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie Slocum assured her the Martin was a good investment, even if she never learned to play it better than an acid head who was into heavy metal.”

Ifs Play Music Four Hundred Dollars Investment Heavy Finished Luxury Flats Metals Assured Acid Outrageous Heavy Metal

Author:Dan Jenkins

“I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.”

Want Giving Play Kids Music Give Me Guitar Songwriting Impress Famous Musician Guitar Music

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.”

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Author:Oscar Peterson

“Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.”

People Ifs Needs Trying Play Music Philosophical Jazz Songwriting Cerebral Prologue Playing Jazz

Author:Oscar Peterson

“I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.”

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Author:Duke Ellington

“I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12”

Play Age Wanted Music Careers

Author:Johnny Winter

“I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.”

Want Play Music Position Stones Stuck

Author:Bill Wyman

“I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.”

Play Music Novel Architecture

Author:Alex Winter

“I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us”

Stills Play Music Rocks Eric Guitarist

Author:B. B. King

“Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though.”

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Author:B. B. King

“He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing, he played well, he was a person that made waves. When you heard Jimi Hendrix you knew it was Jimi Hendrix, he introduced himself in his instrument... You know, many radio stations play records and a lot of the times they don't call out the names who you just listened to, but when they play Jimi Hendrix, you don't have to tell me, [you know] it's Jimi Hendrix.”

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Author:B. B. King

“Since day one my thing has always been to play the music”

Author:Zakk Wylde

“Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.”

Ifs Play Wanted Music Study Dad Guitar My Dad Piano

Author:Jackson Browne

“We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.”

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.”

Trying Play Asks Forget Music Destiny Football Please Ask Me Piano Meant To Be Composer Were Meant To Be

Author:Samuel Barber

“I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.”

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Author:Thelonious Monk

“The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.”

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Author:Stan Getz

“When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.”

People Want Play Beautiful Dies Black Music Crazy Jazz Smoke Bags Pot Jazz Music Beautiful People Playing Jazz Jazz And Blues

Author:Rahsaan Roland Kirk