"I’ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of them come close to having Ed’s [Eddie Van Halen's] fantastic combination of chops and musicianship. I rank him along with Charlie Parker and Art Tatum as one of the three greatest musicians of my lifetime. Unfortunately, I don’t think Ed puts himself in that class."

-- Ted Templeman

#Art Quotes #Player Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.”

Source : Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.259
“Listen- my relationship with radio on a personal level is nothing but a one way love-a-thon... I love radio, I grew up on radio. That's where I heard Buddy Holly, that's where I heard Chuck Berry. I couldn't believe it the first time I heard one of my records on the radio, and I STILL love hearing anything I'm involved with on radio, and some of my best friends were from radio. But we were on different sides of that argument, there's no question about that.”
“... nattering nabobs of negativism ...”
“Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation.”

Source : Marcelo Gleiser (2010). “A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel and gang leaders, and even state governments, is that there is no more complete end-to-end weapon system in the inventory of war machines than the child soldierMan has created the ultimate cheap, expendable, yet sophisticated human weapon at the expense of humanity's own future: its children.”
“There are no air conditioners in Hell”
“The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.”
“The first point of courtesy must always be truth.”

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