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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Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.
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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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Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.
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Love is the only gold.
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I think every actor fantasizes about a show where you get to play several characters in one piece and not just Detective Bluestone asking what time you were at the station.
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I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?
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I'm big into fishing, but I've never been much of a hunter. I never was really raised around it a whole lot, so I never got a chance to do it a whole lot.
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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.
