Billy Sheehan Quotes

#1. I love a lot of reggae, but I've never had the opportunity to play with any reggae guys.

Billy Sheehan

#2. If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.

Billy Sheehan

#3. My husband is very proud of me and what I do. Which I think is really sweet.

Nicola Cornick

#4. I've been an amature inventor for a long time.

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#5. Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

Holbrook Jackson

#6. I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

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#7. As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass.

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#8. I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

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#9. I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.

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#10. My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me.

Billy Sheehan

#11. People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

Bruce Schneier

#12. It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

Billy Sheehan

#13. Terrorists are like zebras; those having more white stripes than black are good terrorists,those with more black stripes than white are bad ones.

Shahid Hussain Raja

#14. Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better.

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#15. Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

Eric Fellner

#16. I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

Billy Sheehan

#17. Pain always makes me antagonistic
are you any different?

V.C. Andrews

#18. It's not art, it's science.

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#19. It is difficult to understand why I am so famous. I never thought I wanted to be an actress. I never thought about it. I think it is my destiny to be in this business.

Li Bingbing

#20. I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play.

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#21. What people think of me and my playing is up to them, not me.

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#22. We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.

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#23. History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

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#24. I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

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#25. I'm very honored and thankful if someone says something nice about my playing, but in general I'm very critical of what I do.

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#26. Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

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#27. And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.

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#28. Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

Sean Hannity

#29. I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.

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#30. The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

Ray Kurzweil

#31. When I saw Orlando from an airplane, it looked like a LEGO set sunk into an ocean of green.

John Green

#32. Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.

Amartya Sen

#33. Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

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#34. I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally.

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#35. It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.

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