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I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

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Wes Montgomery

A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.

Cuts, Cutting, Guitar, Play, Rocks, See
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I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

Case, Funny, Guitar, Meat, Music, Raw

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

African American, Keeping, Music, Play, Regardless

I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is to move from one vein to the other without any trouble. The biggest thing to me is keeping a feeling, regardless what you play. So many cats lose their feeling at various times, not through the whole tune, but at various times, and it causes them to have to build up and drop down, and you can feel it.

Biggest, Cat, Moving, Play, Thing, Various

It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

Believe, Play, Thinking, Tunes, Wrong

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

Ifs, Jazz, Player, Respect
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