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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that's lasting.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
- Classical Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Andres Segovia, the great name for guitar, he put classical guitar on the map. He was the proponent of it, the best in the world. So I was listening to a record that he had made, and a little bauble happened in the middle of the record. A finger slipped, and I said, 'Wait a minute. He's not allowed to make mistakes,' - my mind.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest song in the world is 'Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You.' All over the world, it's number one on the whole planet.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I study the Bible constantly. I teach the Bible. You know, I'm a Bible conductor, and I have a lot of people studies. But also, I see how small things really help people to get over humps in their life. Gives them direction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it's what you put on that record that makes the difference whether you sell it or not or are able to get it into people's households.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and I couldn't understand what I was hearing. All afternoon, I just sat against the amp and let it reverberate through me. Something must have stuck.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep my ears open. The world can change overnight; that's what happens in this world. You never know. You have to keep your eyes and ears open. If you can't keep up, you ain't gonna catch up. I've been making records since 1953, and you just have to keep up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't done anything with Chick Corea. He had a group called Return to Forever, and everyone in the group became a superstar. I would really like to work with him.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole life, I've never worried about being No. 1, because that's the guy they've got to get out of there.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.
- Seven
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seven boys.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing all the way through the show to me is boring. I don't care how great the artist is. I find that if my audience is very young, and they want to hear very young songs, my show will be dominated by that. But there'll be some ballads here and there and some swing tunes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The jazz rhythm won't be understood by the bulk of my audience. That's the problem. We can get away with maybe one tune a night. It depends on where we place it. A song like 'Beyond the Sea,' the fans love that. It's fresh.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life isn't all me. I have a family to support. I can't rob them of a good life simply because I want to play something.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm not sure I would have done great. I'm a lover of jazz music, so I would have been happy, don't get me wrong. I go to jazz concerts like the biggest jazz fan in world. The drag is that I don't play jazz for a living.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't particularly fall in love with my own compositions, but some of them are decent.
- Hometown
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually got discovered in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by a man who worked at a place that sold barbecue sandwiches!
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 15 years old, my cousin and I formed a singing group called The Altaires. And, because we became the most popular singing group in the Tri-State area, the rest of the group convinced me I should play the guitar - even though I didn't own one! So what happened was, my stepfather actually made my first electric guitar for me for $23!
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done two albums for Concord Records; one was with Al Jarreau and it did very well for us. The second album was called 'Songs And Stories,' and it had good songs and good performances, but I promised them I would do an album that was more jazz-oriented.
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