John Petrucci (John Peter Petrucci) Quotes
Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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Princes appear to me to be Fools Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something Else besides Human Life.
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There is no certainty in sciences where one of the mathematical sciences cannot be applied, or which are not in relation with these mathematics.
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A prima descendit origine mundicausarum series.
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I'm a big fan, and I like the idea of fighting Roy Jones Jr.
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When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the major and the minor triad is an extermely important thing not merely as harmony, but in creating melodic lines. Schubert is always walking up and down with arpeggios on C, E, G and so forth. I am not doing anything different really, except using a different system of harmony.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
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You dont make music for immortality you make music for the moment of capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet earth, WOW! is this fun... this is just the greatest everybody should live it that way.
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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
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Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.
