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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I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.
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I can play girls of any nationality, because I have a lot of foreign blood in me.
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
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Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time.
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When once you have plunged into the strife for power, it is the fear of those who are seeking for power over you that so easily persuades to all the great crimes.
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It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.
