Billy Sheehan Quotes
I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
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It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.
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You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.
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People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.
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People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes.
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Trump is a really complicated story and a difficult candidate to write about.
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When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.
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I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. Like school is very different; it's not nearly as social. Canadian teenagers see it as a much more serious place.
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I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.
