Joe Satriani Quotes
I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
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For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.
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As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
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We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
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As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
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I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.
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Whether it's from the biggest, most powerful city, or from the dinkiest little podunk town, there is a certain attachment and connection, and yes, pride about where you came from.
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I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.
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The idea that God speaks to some illiterate merchant warlord in Arabia, and he’s able to write this down perfectly and it contains the answers to all - don’t waste my time with that bulls**t. Also, the archangel Gabriel speaks only Arabic, it seems? Crap.
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I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.
