I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!
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Related One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player f... TREVOR DONOVAN I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and... BOZ SCAGGS I think jazz guitar isn't very ladylike in general. Not that it shouldn't be. MARY HALVORSON I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this prob... MAC DEMARCO My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe. LENNY KRAVITZ We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would ha... GEORGE BENSON I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and ... STEVE VAI Nobody would take me seriously. They would take one look at me and say, 'O.K., folk singer.'... MARY HALVORSON The first guitar player I saw putting on a show was Guitar Slim - I must've been 13 years old - he c... BUDDY GUY When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied... MOBY I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your... DAVE MUSTAINE My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like ... WYNTON MARSALIS I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It... RITA COOLIDGE Ah, I could make it in the shape of a guitar, and it would a) be more affordable, and b) a guitar pl... LEO FENDER I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. ... SLASH I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player. KAREN BLACK My heroes, I couldn't imagine them practicing. Like Bob Dylan, you know? Bob Dylan's a very,... LAURENT BRANCOWITZ But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't pl... CHARLIE HUNTER I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a ... GARY OLDMAN Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument. STEVE VAI I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that i... NAT WOLFF I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway. DEBORAH MOGGACH I'm not a good guitar player. ADAM JONES I know how a guitar player likes a guitar to feel and to sound. Having the right tone is everything. DON MEYERS I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do ... ANDY SUMMERS I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record. RITA COOLIDGE When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started ... MIRANDA COSGROVE I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd don... DAN HAWKINS If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a sm... J. D. SOUTHER When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo... IAN ANDERSON I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but ... DOC WATSON We have several entertainers planned for the evening. One is a puppeteer, but his act is a secret. T... DON SIPPEL I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fai... BRAD PAISLEY Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people... RITA COOLIDGE I got it into my head that I had somewhat neglected the guitar, and then I did a record called '... TODD RUNDGREN I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection ... KURT ELLING You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz. AHMET ERTEGUN I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable... JEFF BECK I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you kno... POST MALONE I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like. ADRIAN BELEW I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either ... AL JARREAU I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube. PETER CAPALDI I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record. GARY CHERONE If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ... B. B. KING This is music I've known since I first started to play the guitar. Ray's music was one of my inspira... JOHN SCOFIELD I hated finals week. Finals week was 24-7 quiet hours, which meant no serious guitar playing for a w... FRED RUSSELL I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played... ALEXIS KORNER I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar ... BENJAMIN BOOKER I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable gui... JEFF BECK When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar pl... DAVID BYRNE I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player. LEE DEWYZE When I'm at home or in the studio, I have a 1963 Martin. It's a D-28, and I love that guitar... CHARLIE WORSHAM My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when ... GASPARD ULLIEL I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in... DONALD MILLER I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music befor... MAC DEMARCO I was singing totally jazz then, but when I heard the Beatles and heard the gospel influence and eve... BILLY PAUL I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar ... DON MCLEAN I do have a feeling about bands that cannot get it on, ... When I was a kid, I had guitar heroes: Ji... DAVE MUSTAINE I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just so... CHARLIE ROWE I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the ja... LAURA MVULA If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. ICE T I thought it was a good way for me to say thanks to him, ... He left me every piece of musical gear ... ALAN YATES I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to... JOAN BAEZ I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz a... RICHIE HAVENS I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play... ROY AYERS I wouldn't mind working with Queens of the Stone Age, doing some guitar stuff on that. Even Arct... STEVE JONES I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not ... ROY AYERS I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where j... AGNES OBEL Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guit... CHUCK BERRY I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got... KIP WINGER I couldn't sing without a guitar. I like the way it feels to sing and be holding a guitar, even ... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. I'll never be the best guitar player. CHAD KROEGER My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playi... BILLY CORGAN I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of my... CASSANDRA WILSON I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio. RITA COOLIDGE So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too. STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not. PHIL KLAY I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons. ADAM JONES I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest s... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 'Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-... LESLIE FEIST One thing I've got going for me is I'm a baseball player playing a guitar. I'm not a renowned jazz g... BERNIE WILLIAMS I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'... CARLOS SANTANA I thought it was a good way for me to say thanks to him, ... He left me every piece of musical gear ... ALAN YATES The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass,... RANDY BACHMAN I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se. MICK JONES For this album, I was looking for songs that would be fun to play live. I was really focused on that... BRAD PAISLEY I always used to say I'm definitely not a straight-ahead jazz singer, because then there's p... GRETCHEN PARLATO I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and... KAKI KING I grew up around jazz. I love jazz. BAZ LUHRMANN Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music... SAM SMITH But I might be partial because I'm a guitar player. JEFF COOK All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based ... IAN ANDERSON I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian. STEVIE JACKSON I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player. BILLY CORGAN I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the ... OSCAR ISAAC I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g... SIMON COWELL All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. An... GUY CLARK I knew of jazz, but I didn't like it. I always thought only older people liked jazz - you know, you ... HERBIE HANCOCK My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar! IRIS DEMENT
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