Joe Bonamassa Quotes
I don't really do scales... I mean, I play parts of them, but then I bail and start playing parts of other things. The term 'scale' feels very scripted to me because I'm an improv player.
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Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.
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On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
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Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.
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A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.
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I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest.
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I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.
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I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.
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I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself. I eat healthy. I exercise a lot. But then I have to go to events in cocktail dresses and look fancy, and people want to interview me about what I'm wearing, and then I'm compared to people who are wearing size 2 all the time.
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I went to public school up until junior high.
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It's been somewhat of a tumultuous season despite being 21-1 at this point. That's everyday life at New London and we know how to deal with that and move on.
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Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right.
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I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.
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I don't really do scales... I mean, I play parts of them, but then I bail and start playing parts of other things. The term 'scale' feels very scripted to me because I'm an improv player.
