Joe Satriani Quotes

When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is pushing the boundaries, I just say, "let's step back for a minute and admit something: nothing has happened for the last 100 years." And it's okay. It's not a bad thing ... We're all working with "tools" that have been in existence for the last 100 years and there hadn't been a new "tool" for a long long time.

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• I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Help

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Universe
  • Chance

• If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Child

• Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Great
  • Give
  • Floyd

• We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Work
  • Long
  • War

• Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Believe
  • Choices
  • Decisions

• Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Business
  • Politics

• On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Progress
  • Place
  • Now

• Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Myself

• Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Fun
  • Easy

• I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Funny
  • Play
  • Stupid

• I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Popular
  • Start

• I regret all of my books.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Books
  • Regret

• All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Work
  • Technique
  • Transition

• I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Political
  • Diplomat

• I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • She
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• The TV industry is a corporate world. People come, people go. They leave for growth, money, and many other reasons.

  

  Pratyusha Banerjee
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position.

  

  Nick Minchin
  • Party
  • Position
  • Planet

• I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Create
  • Break

• Nobody knows how long they have left on Earth. There's no guarantees, and for me, when they tell you - not once, twice, three times - 'You've got a couple weeks to live,' or a couple months, you have to determine how you want to do that.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Long
  • Live
  • Earth

• It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

  

  Christine Todd Whitman
  • Pretty
  • Team

• When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is pushing the boundaries, I just say, "let's step back for a minute and admit something: nothing has happened for the last 100 years." And it's okay. It's not a bad thing ... We're all working with "tools" that have been in existence for the last 100 years and there hadn't been a new "tool" for a long long time.

  

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