"My first love in music was jazz, but I like it all," "I reacted emotionally to Art Blakey and, of course, to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery. I was all of 16 when I had my first guitar lesson with Joe. But I never focused on being a bebop player. I loved the harmony, rhythm and phrasing, but I wanted to apply them to my own concept and sound."

-- Larry Carlton

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“I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!”

Source : Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. January 22, 2016.
“Well. There was noting to be done for it. Things had happened as they did, time's arrow had yet to be reversed by humans, done was done. If a man spent his life looking over his shoulder at every possible branching of his path he could have taken, he would never accomplish anything. One must learn from history so as not to repeat it, but one must not waste one's energy or time worrying about what might have been. Sorry . . . but people die every day and the galaxy continues on quite well without them. Consider yourself lucky you are one of those as yet unselected by the Fates.”
“Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.”
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”

Source : Creative Think talk, www.folklore.org. July 20, 1982.
“I used to get drunk in venues after my shows and sign the walls "Ed was here." So if you see that, it was me.”
“I kind of think we have too many guns in this country,”
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
“It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.”

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