Dave Genn Quotes

A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing.

Dave Genn

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• We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Energy
  • Wind
  • Solar

• The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Success
  • Organization
  • Communication

• The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Pressure

• You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • You
  • Play

• I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Life
  • God
  • Hope

• Music is my balance... center of my life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Music
  • Balance

• Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Play
  • Looking

• I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Brain
  • Use
  • Both

• I love the produce section at the grocery store.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Produce
  • Store
  • Grocery

• One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Principles
  • Personal

• Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Win
  • Tennis

• How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the 'Man Of La Mancha.'

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • Different
  • Art

• After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Money
  • Book
  • Years

• There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Great
  • Women
  • Art

• I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Time
  • Important
  • Book

• I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • People
  • Song
  • Fashion

• I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Literature
  • Italian
  • Heroes

• To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• I'd been on the Internet since the 1970s when it was just for nerds. I started saying, 'Who would benefit from this?' I started imagining a world where young people could have their own email address, back in the days of family AOL accounts.

  

  Jay Samit
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Money
  • Financial
  • Problems

• I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music before that, and I played a bit of guitar when I was younger and thought maybe I'd become a guitar teacher or something, but when I saw other kids doing it, I was like, 'Whoa, these are great bands! I can do it, too.'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Great
  • Music
  • Kids

• Music to me is life. It's what gets me going.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Music

• I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past.

  

  Miguel Ferrer
  • Guy
  • Past
  • Draws

• A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing.

  

  Dave Genn
  • Music
  • Reason
  • Guitar