Larry Carlton Quotes

#1. Gasoline inventories are tighter than they were a few weeks ago. It's all about perception, because inventories are well above where they have been in previous years.

Kyle Cooper

#2. Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.

Leonard Nimoy

#3. It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.

Larry Carlton

#4. People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a jazz guitar player. Wes Montgomery was a jazz guitarist, Joe Pass was a jazz guitarist (laughs).

Larry Carlton

#5. There are any number of players with extensive jazz backgrounds who haven't been able to fit into other styles," "It all boils down to taste, to playing what's appropriate for the context in which you're working.

Larry Carlton

#6. In jazz improv, there is no such thing as wrong notes, only notes that are better chosen and it's not about the note you play, it's about the note you play next.

Larry Carlton

#7. You don't forget. You just move past it. Let go. Be who you were supposed to be instead of who they make you feel like you should be

Jessica Sorensen

#8. Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

Yoko Ono

#9. Lenny Breau had the ability to reach into your heart.

Larry Carlton

#10. One of the things that was probably to Dad's discredit was that he was never a fund-raiser. But he didn't live in an era of TV ads.

Bob Latta

#11. The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#12. I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of ideas by the time I get to my second or third chorus.

Larry Carlton

#13. It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.

William Hazlitt