Joe Perry (Anthony Joseph Perry) Quotes

Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it.

Joe Perry Aerosmith

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  Anton Zaslavski
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• If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

  

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• It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

  

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• What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.

  

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• Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
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• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

  

  Aaron Diehl
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  • Jazz
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• I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

  

  Oscar Peterson
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• I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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• This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.

  

  Warren Christopher
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• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
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• I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

  

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• Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I guess life offers you opportunities to live your dream. We just have to accept what comes our way and live those moments completely. You will not get back this time again, so live every moment you get.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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• I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.

  

  Pat Metheny
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• If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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• For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.

  

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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• The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity. You are never too young to learn, never too old to change. Your yearnings to learn and change come from a divinely instilled striving for eternal progression. Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
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• On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
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• God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
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• Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Jazz