Joel Plaskett Quotes

#1. When I don't like the name of a place or a person I always imagine a new one and always think of them so. " Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery

#2. What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you hit the stage you have a "common" feeling. Even though you're the performer and they're the audience there's something uniting everybody in the room.

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#3. I love playing and I like traveling. I really do like playing in Canada, its not to diminish anywhere else because touring internationally can be cool.

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#4. I do feel very honored to get all this attention. Basically, what I need to do is to go out there and perform. That's what I'm intending to do.

Masahiro Tanaka

#5. Organisations often appoint leaders for their IQ. Then, years later, sack them for their lack of EQ (Emotional Intelligence). Common Purpose argues that in the future they will promote for CQ - Cultural Intelligence.

Julia Middleton

#6. When I'm preforming a lot I'm aching to get back in the studio but I love live performance. I love trying to think on my feet and be spontaneous. I like doing that in a live show and I do the same thing in the studio.

Joel Plaskett

#7. I've had a lot of support from every corner of my life and my audience, to pretty much do close to what I want. I don't have unlimited time or money to execute my wildest dreams but I have enough get up and go to keep me going.

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#8. I've been really supported by my family and my wife. She really understands what I do, but it doesn't get any easier when you get away all the time and so I'm trying to find the balance.

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#9. I tend to pour myself into my music and I don't have a lot of other places my mind goes, unless it's spending time with family and friends.

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#10. Do I need to share the meaning of stalker?

Christi Snow

#11. Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.

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#12. Grab onto God's promises with one hand and His faithfulness with the other, ripping apart the natural to reveal the supernatural unseen beneath.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#13. We still need to have one beautiful lady standing there.

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#14. When I'm recording a song, I wake up and I'm thinking about it. I go to sleep and I'm thinking about it.

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#15. A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

Jack Welch

#16. I have the ability to go back to the old days with the boys and remember what it was like playing music. I have that real connection to the feeling of playing music as a young man. I do. I can almost touch it.

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#17. I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe have the same aspirations.

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#18. I have enough of a fan-base that I don't feel it is going to evaporate. I don't feel like I have a fleeting fan-base. I don't feel like it is coming from some trend-driven thing where I'm no longer going to be hip. I've come and gone through all that.

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#19. to linger in the factory after clocking-off time (though now a manager, simon had never ceased to think in the terms of his apprenticeship) would constitute a fatal admission that your home life was lacking or, worse, that you were trying to brownnose senior management

J.K. Rowling

#20. I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.

Allen Iverson

#21. The only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how

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#22. That memory of making the record is a huge part of the record itself.

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#23. There's a reason that I love this town.

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#24. I hope people leave my show thinking they've had a worthwhile couple of hours. The worst thing you want is for people to think they've wasted their time or didn't get their money's worth.

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#25. I've always had a fondness for language ... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and I like poetry.. I like the written word ... and the sung word.

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#26. When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't.'

Kelly Clarkson

#27. I've never been able to stand up for myself while growing up, but I will stand up for you against anyone who ever threatens to hurt you in any way.

Daniele Lanzarotta

#28. I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like how there are stars and there are people in those cities that are revered in the community.

Joel Plaskett

#29. I love singing. I've never felt I've had a great voice but I feel I've gotten better. It's funny. I can hear my voice aging and getting stronger. I've relaxed about my singing so I'm hearing it the way I like it.

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#30. I care about the records I make and I love writing songs and some songs are really dear to me and they mean something. But the memory of making the records and the activities surrounding the records, the people involved in them is actually a bigger thing to me.

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