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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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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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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Mathematics, trigonometry, chemistry, psychoanalysis, music, and what not have been related to cubism to give it an easier interpretation. All this has been pure literature, not to say nonsense, which brought bad results, blinding people with theories. Cubism has kept itself within the limits and limitations of painting, never pretending to go beyond it.
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There is a reactionary conservative side of classical music, which is not the most exciting side of it. The side that draws me in, there's a real encouragement of risk-taking, going back to masters of that tradition like Beethoven and Bartok and Stravinsky.
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Music is a good way to channel your fragile, vulnerable, needy side, but it's also something to rejoice in.
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I picked up the Puerto Rican accent from my father, and my sister picked up my mother's very clear, concise, and slow Mexican-Spanish. So, when she does speak, she speaks with diction. She pronounces every word.
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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.
