Joe Bonamassa Quotes
Basically, 2011 was the hardest year on the road for me because I did a spring tour and a fall tour plus nine weeks in the summer, and I was pretty worse for wear by the time I got home in December. I know I was only 34, but that was a tough lap.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.
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I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
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Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.
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It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
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For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
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I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.
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If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.
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I would like the thrill of making a new project every time.
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The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.
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How you treat the quiet, shy types is the most important. If you leave them to sit in a corner, they will be noticed, and it will affect everyone's time. I instantly spring on them and treat them as royalty, showing them around and introducing them to everyone so they seem special.
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I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.
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If you don't know someone who's had a problem with addiction, you will.
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I think I'm constantly resorting to making sure to keep God's perspective in my mind.
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If you could only hear what I dream.
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Basically, 2011 was the hardest year on the road for me because I did a spring tour and a fall tour plus nine weeks in the summer, and I was pretty worse for wear by the time I got home in December. I know I was only 34, but that was a tough lap.
