Category: musician
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I gathered that those two Big-shot Boys, Joe + Fletcher, just was afraid to let me sing, thinking maybe I’d sort of ruin their reputations with their musical public. They not knowing that I had been singing all of my life. In churches, etc. I had one of the finest All Boys Quartets that ever walked the streets of New Orleans.
Louis Armstrong
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The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‘Thus far and no farther.’
Ludwig van Beethoven
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I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn’t care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.
George Harrison
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There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Critics have their purposes, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
Duke Ellington
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The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.
George Harrison
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By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
Duke Ellington
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Hippies are so phoney and fake.
George Harrison
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It was all part of being a Beatle, really: just getting lugged around and thrust into rooms full of press men taking pictures and asking questions.
George Harrison
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Some of the best songs that I know are the ones I haven’t written yet, and it doesn’t even matter if I don’t ever write them, because it’s only small potatoes compared with the big picture.
George Harrison