Joe Satriani Quotes
Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.
Quotes to Explore
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. I've seen so many nannies in the park on their phones, and the kids are running off.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.
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The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.
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We were all up there, Dick and Mary and Rosie and Larry Mathews and I looked around and I said, inadvertently, 'Look at this, we could do a show,'
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Be inspired but not proud.
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What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.
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What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.
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Let mine not be that saddest fate of all To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the tree Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall... "She lives, but all her usefulness is past."
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Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!
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My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles.... That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need to grasp principles has caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless pursuits.
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Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of blood! Let them not live to taste this land's increase That would with treason wound this fair land's peace! Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again: That she may long live here, God say amen!
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Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
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I slapped my face two or three times with both hands, as hard as possible. The slapping hurt. It snapped me to attention. My adrenaline started flowing... the Yugoslavs, sitting in the next lane stared at me in disbelief. The harsh slapping made me angry-exactly what I wanted. I did my best work when I was angry.
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Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.
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Never let money control you. I'd rather see someone spend every red cent and relish his/her life than scrimp, obsess, and pinch the pennies. There's something repugnant about a person who centers his life around money.
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Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.
