"Back in the day in my teens I was listening to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery a lot; before that I was listening to what I would call now the more 'simple' jazz players (but still very valid), like Barney Kessell or Johnny Smith; I learnt a lot of voicings from Johnny Smith records. Now, I listen to the old blues players; that's what you'd hear in my house if there was music on. It would be Albert Collins or Albert King."

-- Larry Carlton

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“I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.”

Source : Source: twoaspirinsandacomedy.com
“The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bulls**t.”
“I started out as a box boy. You know, I didn't go to college, and I did well in supermarkets.”
“In today's world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies on political and public apathy, Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.”
“I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.”
“Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.”
“The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.”
“Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.”

Source : "The superpowers' balance sheet". www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2006.

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