Ron Carter

A good bassist determines the direction of any band.

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

What gives life its value you can find – and lose. But never posess. This holds good above all for “the Truth about Life.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

No dog ever peed on a moving car.

Life’s three best teachers: heartbreak, empty pocket, failures.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

Join the dance.

We are entering an era when we shall create resources which shall be so constantly renewed that the only loss will be not to use them. There will be such a plenteous supply of heat, light and power, that it will be a sin not to use all we want. This era is coming now. And it is coming by way of Water.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.

Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.