Category: musician
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Music is a safe kind of high.
Jimi Hendrix
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I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don’t have, I don’t need.
Louis Armstrong
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Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There’s no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that’s all it is.
George Harrison
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Well, I tell you… the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody round the melody, and the third chorus, I routines.
Louis Armstrong
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All I’m gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
Jimi Hendrix
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The Beatles exist apart from myself. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion, and until the end of my life, people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
George Harrison
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When this ugly gangster told Joe Glaser that he must take the name of Armstrong down, off of the marquee, and it was an ‘order from Al Capone,’ Mr. Glaser looked this cat straight in the face and told him these words: ‘I think that is the world’s greatest, and this is my place, and I defy anybody to take his name down from there.’
Louis Armstrong
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I’m the kind of person who would love to play whenever I felt like, with a band, and it might as well be the Holiday Inn in Nebraska – somewhere where no one knows you, and you’re in a band situation just playing music.
George Harrison
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They gave their money, and they gave their screams. But the Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems. They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then blamed it on us.
George Harrison
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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.
Duke Ellington