American - Musician | March 22, 1943 -
If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.
George Benson
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As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.
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My whole life, I've never worried about being No. 1, because that's the guy they've got to get out of there.
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I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.
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Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that's lasting.
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I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.
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I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.
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The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.
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My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.
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Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.
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I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
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Andres Segovia, the great name for guitar, he put classical guitar on the map. He was the proponent of it, the best in the world. So I was listening to a record that he had made, and a little bauble happened in the middle of the record. A finger slipped, and I said, 'Wait a minute. He's not allowed to make mistakes,' - my mind.
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