Joe Perry (Anthony Joseph Perry) Quotes

You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.

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• One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Father
  • Me
  • Memories

• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Seem

• I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Endless
  • Tire
  • Sequels

• I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Failure
  • Ambition
  • Last

• I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Tongue

• When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Different
  • Understanding

• I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Write
  • Need
  • Hotel

• I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

  

  Young Buck
  • World
  • Feel

• The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • House
  • You

• The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • Job
  • Something
  • Irish

• I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Good
  • Kids

• The first time I ever got paid to play was 1/18/99, Fire Hall in Bordentown, New Jersey. Played first on the bill - we got paid $20!

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Play
  • Fire

• It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Life
  • Important
  • Business

• I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Never
  • Dramatic

• As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • American
  • Taken

• The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.

  

  Imelda May
  • American
  • You
  • Irish

• It definitely feels different to perform to people who know your music. Because people's feedback is not just, 'Oh my God, that was amazing. Who are you?'

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • People
  • Music
  • God

• Some things get better with age. Like me.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Age
  • Things

• The gospel teaches us to be happy, to have faith rather than fear, to find hope and overcome despair, to leave darkness and turn toward the light of the everlasting gospel.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Happy
  • Hope
  • Darkness

• My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Way
  • Style
  • Vintage

• As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Future
  • Way

• You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
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