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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
-
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.
-
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.
-
When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
-
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.
-
The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
-
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.
-
When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
-
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.
-
Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
-
If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
-
Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
-
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?
-
Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
-
It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
-
There will be a sovereign Palestinian state, a sovereign Jewish state of Israel and those two states can, I think, will be able to deal with each other the same way all states do. I mean, you know, the United States and Canada has arguments once in a while, but they’re not the nature of arguments that can’t be solved diplomatically.
-
Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it's rare that you get to explore that in a film.
-
I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name.
-
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.
-
I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy Kennedy had been with me since 1978. Janusz Kaminsky, my cinematographer, has made every movie with me since Schindler's List. Michael Kahn has cut every movie I've directed since 1976 when we made Close Encounters together. Rick Carter has done more than 15 of my directed films as a production designer.
-
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.
