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    Chet Atkins

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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

    #apprenticeship #formula #give #i #logical

    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

    #care #done #gone #guitars #hear

    Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it. ↗


    — Chet Atkins

    #meant #next #people #think #verse

    Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre. ↗


    — Chet Atkins

    #done #ever #everything #fear #i

    I'll always be poor in my mind. ↗


    — Chet Atkins

    #i #mind #poor

    If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too. ↗


    — Chet Atkins

    #halfway #hear #like #public #something

    Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. ↗


    — Chet Atkins

    #become #interested #once #predictable #you

    You shape your own destiny. ↗


    — Chet Atkins

    #own #shape #you #your






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    Did you know about Chet Atkins?

    In this period he became known internationally as "Mister Guitar" inspiring an album named Mister Guitar engineered by both Bob Ferris and Bill Porter Ferris's replacement. He recorded smooth jazz guitar still played on American airwaves today. Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins (June 20 1924 – June 30 2001) was an American guitarist and record producer who along with Owen Bradley created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.

    Among many honors Atkins received 14 Grammy Awards as well as the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award nine Country Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year awards was inducted into both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Atkins produced records for The Browns Porter Wagoner Norma Jean Dolly Parton Dottie West Perry Como Elvis Presley the Everly Brothers Eddy Arnold Don Gibson Jim Reeves Jerry Reed Skeeter Davis Waylon Jennings and many others.

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