"... I would urge a young player to listen to Charlie Christians' sense of time ... I'll never forget listening to my father (Bucky Pizzarelli) and Tal Farlow playing Christians' 'Solo Flight' backstage at a gig... that's when it hit me how big of an effect Christian had on jazz guitar. 'Solo Flight' was like the gospel..."

-- John Pizzarelli

#Music Quotes #Christian Quotes #Father Quotes

“Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.”
“Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There's a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species.”

Source : "Michele Bachmann Said What?!" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. June 6, 2011.
“Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.”

Source : Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.
“Sometimes its nice when people you love need you.”
“We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.”
“Creative life is always based on the values of the self, not on the values of the system.”
“- Be thou not technical with me,/Or else thine input valve may swift receive/a hearty helping of my golden foot.”

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