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Percussionist Inspirational Quotes (704)

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I never wrote anything down. I never kept a diary, never kept a journal. I did write one letter home about touring with the Doors that I used as a reference for the book for some details there, and then I was glad I had that, but that was it.
Linda Ronstadt
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You do not know anything until you have practiced.
Richard P. Feynman
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The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.
Richard P. Feynman
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I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.
Lenny Kravitz
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Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.
Chico Hamilton
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One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.
Vito Fossella
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This world is so crazy. So many things are based on popularity versus talent. So there's a lot of folks who are not so talented, but they're popular and they have x amount of followers on social media.
Lenny Kravitz
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Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
Richard P. Feynman
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It doesn't take a lot to get me motivated. I'm a studio rat. When I was in high school and I would walk into a recording studio, it felt like this magical place, this temple, this womb that I could escape into.
Lenny Kravitz
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People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don't have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.
Lenny Kravitz
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I don't know where I'm going, and I don't care where I'm going. As long as I can just do it.
Terry Bozzio
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The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.
Linda Ronstadt
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The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
Alex Van Halen
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I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.
Roscoe Mitchell
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Working with Gabby [Sidibe], I realized immediately that she was amazingly talented. I could tell just by the way she'd get into the role.
Lenny Kravitz
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Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right.
Richard P. Feynman
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If the situation presents itself, I'm always going to play as if I want the job. You either play, or get played out.
Billy Cobham
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The words I overuse are all adverbs.
Sam Shepard
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Some people say, How can you live without knowing? I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.
Richard P. Feynman
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I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.
Sam Shepard
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The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.
Richard P. Feynman
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I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head.
Lenny Kravitz
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Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.
Brandon Boyd
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I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.
Brandon Boyd
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