Hal Sparks Quotes

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.

Hal Sparks

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• When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.

  

  Laura Prepon
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• The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

  

  Yasser Arafat
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• I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.

  

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• Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

  

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• I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
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• My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.

  

  Gautam Adani
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• When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.

  

  Carl Weathers
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• I try to invest smart. I'm not a baller. I'm not a blinger.

  

  Venus Williams
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• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
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• I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.

  

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• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Thinking
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• You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.

  

  Malik Jackson
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• We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

  

  J. A. Konrath
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• The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.

  

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• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
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• Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

  

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• You can't be, like, smashing guitars against Marshall stacks all the time. As a matter of fact, after a while, it just looks like posing - it never really gets down to any message or any real expression.

  

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• The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by the fact that it's real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like 'Let It Be' or 'Long and Winding Road' or a song like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Roxanne,' any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

  

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• Family is funny, and so it was not an unnatural thing for me, growing up, not to know anything about my dad or about the Vance side of our family.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
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• I like to dim the lights and talk about the ghosts I've known and invite other people to tell me their stories.

  

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• I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Focus
  • Try
  • Guitar