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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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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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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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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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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I work 90 hours a week. I work 5 to 9, it's not 9 to 5.
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There are millions of people, refugees, who have experienced the same conflicts and struggles I did. They have the same potential to defy the odds and achieve great things.
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I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries.
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I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong.
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Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.
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A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every roadhouse in the South, soaking in all of that... Nashville is like a second home to me, and I'm just gravitating toward the songs.
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I think music is best left for the listener to experience for themselves. My own description of it is only based on my own history, my own musical references and perspective. I like to avoid coloring things for people too much.
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For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
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When you have three days to work on a scene, you can give all that love to the movie.
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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.