Wes Montgomery Quotes

You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you.

I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything.

Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

I'm not a snob. I can make a meal out of anything. I can eat anywhere.

I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note.

There are so many surprises in my life; I don't take anything for granted. I enjoy every experience that comes; I don't think too far ahead.

I never had a preconceived notion about what I should do or what I should take up… I am not that intelligent.

I've had to learn that not everything is so serious.

Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is. Thus the Master is available to all people and doesn't reject anyone. He is ready to use all situations and doesn't waste anything. This is called embodying the light. What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you don't understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.

Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.

In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.

I love to feel that I'm not above anyone.