Warren Haynes Quotes
I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and chords conventionally without having to relearn the fretboard, as one must do when playing in an open tuning.
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A novel is not a rant.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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My mother is my hero.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
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Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking.
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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.
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I think the furthest I ever got was Guitar Hero. If I could start a band like that, I think I could do it.
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I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and chords conventionally without having to relearn the fretboard, as one must do when playing in an open tuning.
