Joe Satriani Quotes
If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
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We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.
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I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
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I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
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When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
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I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
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You can win ten times, and then you are not able to win five times. I have to discover the reason why, and I am going to find that.
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The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
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Now, at this very minute, another thing is happening which we cannot hear because most paintings do not have a sound-track. Peter is inventing the word 'simony' to explain ecclesiastical purchase-power, for which, since his Church later exercised it so expertly, Simon Magus ought to be revered as a patron not a rogue.
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Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.
