"I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did."

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Source : "Films Come to Life with Stanley Clarke's Music". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. February 15, 2008.

Stanley Clarke

“Not too many players try to bluff me.Â If thereâ€™s going to be bluffing or stealing going on, Iâ€™m Â going to be the one doing to it.”
“One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.”
“I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.”
“Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.”
“You can't handle the truth. Because the truth is, I blew up the Murrah building and isn't it kind of scary that one man could reap this kind of hell?”
“A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.”
“I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it.”
“Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have.”

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