5 Quotes by Larry Coryell

All of music is connected, but a lot of people don’t see it that way.

Barney Kessel was ‘Mr. Guitar,’ the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he swung his tail off, he was a heck of an arranger and could out-read anybody...

Over the years I hope I’ve become more of a musican and less of a guitarist.

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time.

And what happened was, it’s the same thing an older, more successful writer of ficition might say to a student: write about what you know. And what I knew – of course I knew jazz, but I also knew country, blues and some rock and roll. And that came out.