Joe Bonamassa Quotes
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I'm not coming back to play.
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
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I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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A woman can never have enough shoes.
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I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.
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The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
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If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
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I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
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I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about.
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My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.
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You can never have enough talent.
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If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.
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We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.
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Each song has its own life.
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By the same principle, the government may not give special leniency to the perpetrator of a crime, on the grounds of the nature of his ideas.
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After school, I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
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Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.
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There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.
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It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.
