Category: musician
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When the other kids started calling me nicknames, I knew everything was all right. I have a pretty big mouth, so they hit on that and began calling me Gatemouth or Satchelmouth, and that Satchelmouth has stuck to me all my life, except that now it’s been made into ‘Satchmo’ – ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong.
Louis Armstrong
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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington
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At the point we finished ‘Abbey Road,’ the game was up. We all accepted that.
George Harrison
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I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
Yanni
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.
Louis Armstrong
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I try to use my music to move these people to act.
Jimi Hendrix
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And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody’s asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
Yanni
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I think of myself as a jungle musician because of my lack of formal training.
George Harrison
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
Jimi Hendrix