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Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman and the former CEO of computer giant Apple, has passed away on October 5, 2011 after losing a battle with pancreatic cancer. Considered by many the modern day Leonard Da Vinci, Jobs co-founded Apple in the 1970s and since then had driven the technology that revolutionized the way we experience computers and forever changed the way we listen to music with the introduction of iTunes and the iPod in 2001.

"Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being," reads a statement on Apple.com. "Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple." Read the reactions from musicians on Twitter here.

Steve Jobs has once said, "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future," addressing the Stanford University Class of 2005 in a commencement speech. "You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

Steve Jobs will be missed by his wife and his children and his innovation and inspiration will effect generations of music lovers to come.[/quote:2l04vkrq]