Johnny Van Zant Quotes
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
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Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
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I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
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You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you're capable of productive thought.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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I don't think you can erase history.
