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Jazz Musician Inspirational Quotes (6950)

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Let the music speak for itself.
Roy Hargrove
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I am a hundred-percent Indian traditionalist! I am not playing anything - that is for the media to be able to say what I am doing.
Trilok Gurtu
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If you want the rainbow, then you must have the rain.
Annette Hanshaw
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What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.
Erykah Badu
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I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It's difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.
Jill Scott
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When I was four, I started taking lessons from my mom. That's pretty much how I started.
Eldar Djangirov
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Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.
Jeff Goldblum
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The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.
Jake Shimabukuro
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I've always felt that even though a man was not a Christian, he still has to know the truth some way or another. Or if he was a Christian, he could know the truth. The truth itself doesn't have any name on it to me. And each man has to find this for himself, I think.
John Coltrane
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I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.
Nigel Kennedy
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I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing.
Ray Charles
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I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
Chuck Mangione
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I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs
Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.
Jill Scott
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Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
Billy Eckstine
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I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the 'Folies Bergere.'
Josephine Baker
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Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.
Bill Dixon
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
Barbra Streisand
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A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
Clint Eastwood
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Love is stealthy hiding under ribs.
Veda Hille
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Sound has no parents.
Ornette Coleman
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I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.
Derek Bailey
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Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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