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George Benson

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

— George Benson world

Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that's lasting.

— George Benson life

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.

— George Benson change

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.

— George Benson life

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

— George Benson life

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

— George Benson art

I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.

— George Benson hate

Life isn't all me. I have a family to support. I can't rob them of a good life simply because I want to play something.

— George Benson life

My biggest song in the world is 'Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You.' All over the world, it's number one on the whole planet.

— George Benson world

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.

— George Benson mind

I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.

— George Benson love

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.

— George Benson music

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 love

My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and I couldn't understand what I was hearing. All afternoon, I just sat against the amp and let it reverberate through me. Something must have stuck.

— George Benson father

My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small.

— George Benson sin

The jazz rhythm won't be understood by the bulk of my audience. That's the problem. We can get away with maybe one tune a night. It depends on where we place it. A song like 'Beyond the Sea,' the fans love that. It's fresh.

— George Benson love

I actually got discovered in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by a man who worked at a place that sold barbecue sandwiches!

— George Benson work

I don't particularly fall in love with my own compositions, but some of them are decent.

— George Benson love

I have seven boys.

— George Benson boys

I moved to Hawaii from Inglewood, New Jersey. I had planned on retiring there.

— George Benson

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

— George Benson music

My whole life, I've never worried about being No. 1, because that's the guy they've got to get out of there.

— George Benson life

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.

— George Benson art

I haven't done anything with Chick Corea. He had a group called Return to Forever, and everyone in the group became a superstar. I would really like to work with him.

— George Benson work

I keep my ears open. The world can change overnight; that's what happens in this world. You never know. You have to keep your eyes and ears open. If you can't keep up, you ain't gonna catch up. I've been making records since 1953, and you just have to keep up.

— George Benson change

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