Quotes by Chet Atkins - Page 1

You shape your own destiny.
Chet Atkins / Guitarist
Destiny
Shapes
Destiny Your Own
Shape
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I'll always be poor in my mind.
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Mind
Poor
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You want a little talent on that?
Chet Atkins / Guitarist
Littles
Talent
Want
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Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.
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Copying
Research
Stealing
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Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
Chet Atkins / Guitarist
Music
Predictable
Thrive
Anymore
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Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
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Music
Done
Jazz
Mediocre
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Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
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Next
Again
Meant
Verse
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Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.
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Fingers
Good Friend
Rays
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Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business.
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Changed
Country
Scene
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It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.
Chet Atkins / Guitarist
Guitar
Tunes
Years
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If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.
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Chance
Halfway
Reincarnation
Chances
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When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.
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Funny
Music
Dad
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A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Chet Atkins / Guitarist
Alternatives
Apprenticeship
Giving
Logical
Long
Stardom
Alternative
Formula
Logical Way
Overnight
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Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.
Chet Atkins / Guitarist
Funny
Music
Guitar
Years
Guitars
Speaking
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It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time.
Chet Atkins / Guitarist
Music
Long
Play
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Approach your guitar intelligently, and if there are limits, don't deny them. Work within your restrictions. Somethings you can do better than others, some things you can't do as well. So accentuate the positive.
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Funny
Music
Guitar
Limits
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The last song I recorded with [Hank Williams, Sr.] was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." I remember thinking, "Hoss, you're not just jivin'," because he was so weak that all he could do was sing a few lines and then just fall in the chair.
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Country
Fall
Song
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Everyone has their own sound, and if you're heard enough, folks will come to recognize it. Style however, is a different thing. Try to express your own ideas. It's much more difficult to do, but the rewards are there if you're good enough to pull it off.
Chet Atkins / Guitarist
Funny
Inspiring
Music
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Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the music is so vast, and I think that's what knocks people out about him. But he's such a tasty player too. I think if Chopin had played guitar, he would have sounded like Lenny Breau.
Chet Atkins / Guitarist
Music
Player
Thinking
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There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have always been heavily rooted in reality. The first artists were the people next door. They would sing on their porch or in their living room or at a barn dance. They sang about what they knew, and a lot of that was drinking.
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Country
Drinking
Song
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