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I don't have an exact quote but I have a recording of a john medeski interview, he said he would begin his practice time trying to imitate natural sounds or movements, like, he'd try to play the sound of a lizard scurrying across the floor, It's a great exercise when your bored/overwhelmed with theory
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Wow...haven't visited in a few days. This is a great thread and much humor AND wisdom!!

"Music happens between the notes" - ?

"A lifetime is not enough for music" - Mendelsohn

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I can do it quick, I can do it cheap, I can do it right: pick any two.

Who said that?
I'll take right and cheap... I can wait....
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If you want to stay sane, never read the Gibson Corporate Problems thread!

I just said that.

Excellent, funny thread this one, Sailor, congrats on your idea.
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Old 06-14-2010, 01:55 PM
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"Make the click swing and you are on the right track." -Jake Hanlon
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Found this Jimmy Raney Quote: "Your melodic gifts really come out when you're playin' a ballad. It's one good way to separate the artist from the bullshit artist. Musicians who can play a million notes and run all over the guitar and sound very impressive are playing their practiced patterns. Give them a slow ballad and then see what their melodies are like. Slowed down a lot of people sound dull and boring."

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"Mans greatest invention is the compounding of Interest" - Albert Einstein
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"Anyone who thinks talk is cheap has never spoken with an attorney."
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Old 06-15-2010, 01:01 AM
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Jimmy Raney had it right! Improvising on a ballad sets you free allowing more time to play what you hear.

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From the movie "The Legend Of 1900":
"What's that?"
"I dunno"
"When you don't know what it is, it's jazz"
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I like birds - they can sing and they can fly. What else would you want?
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"No one who is listening to you has any idea what you're going to play next." -Mick Goodrick
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"Anything you can do harmonically will also work melodically" - Jack Cecchini

"Play it faster so it will be over quicker" - Jack Cecchini
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"nobody ever got laid 'cause he could play 'Giant Steps'."
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"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side ..." -Hunter S. Thompson
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"nobody ever got laid 'cause he could play 'Giant Steps'."
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Hah. Well, nobody ever got laid because he couldn't.
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.-- John Cage
BBC Interviewer: "Of all your compositions, which one gives you the most pride?"

John Cage: "The ones I haven't composed yet."
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"Every time I've ever met anyone in a creative field who was flamboyant and absolutely sure of himself, I've always discovered there really wasn't any valid talent in his existence."
- Stan Kenton

I may have found that quote on this forum. Either way, it is my favorite to date.
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"To be is to do" - Socrates
"To do is to be" - Sartre
"To be or not to be" - Shakespeare
"Do-be do-be-do" - Sinatra
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Old 10-21-2011, 12:10 PM
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"Blow!" - Howard Mcghee to a fucked up Bird.
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A local tenor player was doing an improv class at a local community college, and another guitar player asked him a question about being original. He said "I am just afraid that if I play in a certain way I will sound too much like Wes Montgomery." The clinician responded, "If you sound so much like Wes that it is to a fault, I will hire you for a gig this instant."

I loved that!
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One door opens
another door closes
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The best things in life are not things.
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paraphrased brutally, from Ted Greene:

When deciding what to practice, you have to make the distinction between what you like and what you love
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"If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
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if a bnild man ldaes a bnlid man, btoh wlil flal itno a pit." Czray taht rdanieg smtoihneg is pisbosle wtih lrtetes jblmeud, huh?
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Ive heard cats trying to copy my mistakes....jimi hendrix
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Rock guitarist gets panties thrown at him too.
" . . . but rarely, if ever, do they fit."
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