Joe Bonamassa Quotes
I learned that if I put my mind to something vocally, I can pull it off. You just have to get your head-space right.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
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Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
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Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
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The concept of an independent "spiritual realm" does not augment, for me, the magic of the mystical dimension, whereas to think of this dimension as emergent from our minds makes it all the more wondrous to be a human.
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I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not.
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I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.
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There is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be.
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There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.
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I learned that if I put my mind to something vocally, I can pull it off. You just have to get your head-space right.
