Joe Bonamassa Quotes

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• I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Myself
  • Water
  • Naked

• If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Music
  • Happy

• I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Think
  • Morning

• Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Communication
  • Genius
  • Rich

• Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Today
  • Society
  • Single

• I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Lost
  • Religion
  • Say

• I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

  

  Washed Out
  • Think
  • Blessing
  • Curse

• For me, I actually come from an electronic dance music background: house music, electro house, trance music, even. When I was coming out of school, basically, I discovered Brain Fever, Flying Lotus, J Dilla and all that. That was when I got excited about hip-hop and when the Flume project started.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • School
  • House

• The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Together
  • Beautiful
  • Team

• When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Shame
  • Privacy
  • Ghetto

• I work very hard at my game.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Work
  • Game
  • Hard

• I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Natural
  • Anything

• The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Life
  • God
  • Man

• The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Career
  • Choices

• If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • You
  • Ask
  • Costs

• I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do whatever he wants. So the way in which he ran for president was to embody that idea as fully as he possibly could with his outrageousness.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Powerful
  • Trump
  • Boss

• There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Experience
  • Past

• So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Trying
  • Dying
  • Calm

• Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Light
  • Surprise
  • Engineers

• Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Useful

• There's comedians who I consider extremely punk rock who I've seen do very political stand up in places where nobody wants to hear that. It's uncomfortable and scary and you realize it's the punkest performance you've ever witnessed.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Political
  • Scary
  • Realizing

• I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Play
  • Band

• You know who I'd like to open for? This will be a surprise, but I'll tell you who: Iron Maiden.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Surprise
  • Open