Charlie Byrd

The guitar chose me.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

There is power in forgiveness.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

The South has a future which it can shape for itself, and avoid the mistakes which the more populous parts of the country have made.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

Roaming through the jungle of ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs’, searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.