Barney Kessel Quotes

• When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!

  Barney Kessel

  Music, Sports, Car

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• Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity

  Barney Kessel

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.

  Barney Kessel

  Music, Christian, Guitar

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• I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

  Barney Kessel

  Excellence, Life Experience, Standards

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• Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to make it, it was no use copying Charlie

  Barney Kessel

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• he signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing

  Barney Kessel

  Music, Herbs

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