Joe Bonamassa Quotes
When you're 12 and, you know, slightly overweight and - for lack of a better word - white, and you're playing blues, you get a lot of press.
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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I know everything about Michael Jordan.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
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I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.
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It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.
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When you're 12 and, you know, slightly overweight and - for lack of a better word - white, and you're playing blues, you get a lot of press.
