Joe Bonamassa Quotes
I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
-
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
-
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
-
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
-
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
-
I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
-
My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
-
The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
-
Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
-
I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
-
My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
-
I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
-
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
-
Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
-
But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
-
I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
-
I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
-
Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
-
I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
-
I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.
-
I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
-
You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
-
I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.
