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10-07-2006, 09:04 AM
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I've had lots of quotes throughout my life that I've held onto that got me through different rough spots, or just made me think "YEAH!" and pumped new life into me. Just heard one recently that clarified my attitude towards playing when I get a gig that really means a lot to me. It's also the reason some others I know didn't get (or hold onto) the same gig.
"An amateur practices until he gets it right. A pro practices until he never gets it wrong"
I like that. And I felt like starting a powerful positive thread. Share yer quotes that have inspired! |
10-07-2006, 09:57 AM
| | Well, thats like your opinion. Man... | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Fife, Scotland | | | "Never trust someone who doesnt like Music."
Couldnt agree more.
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10-07-2006, 10:05 AM
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10-07-2006, 10:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis // St. Charles, MO | | | "Follow your bliss" - Joseph Campbell
"I would never join a club that would have me as a member" - Groucho Marx
"Don't criticize someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes. That way when you do criticize them you will be a mile away and have their shoes." - unknown |
10-07-2006, 10:39 AM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | "The doubt, as a philosophical tool, is epistemologically plausible and implies an agnostic euphemism"  (Yes, I've said that before)
Seriously: "For always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself"- Max Ehrmann |
10-07-2006, 10:50 AM
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10-07-2006, 10:58 AM
| | | | Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people. -- Nido Qubein
You've got to work at living because dying is easy. -- Jack LaLanne
Life is too cool a thing to squander on pointless rage against people who don't really matter. -- Carolyn Hax
Resentment is when you drink poison and expect the other guy to die. -- Leo Kottke
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Sex is one of my three favorite activities; a martini before, and a nap after! -- Fred Blassie |
10-07-2006, 11:20 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | "Luck favours the bold" (I'm actually getting that one tattooed on me soon)
"Who Dares Wins" -SAS, and they win a lot |
10-07-2006, 11:23 AM
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"never ruin a $5 buzz with a $3 meal"
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10-07-2006, 11:23 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Auburn, Washington | | | "Life is too important to take seriously." - Oscar Wilde |
10-07-2006, 02:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: New York, NY | | | See sig. Not exactly inspirational, but a very good reality check.
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10-07-2006, 04:46 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kansas City, MO | | | Your only obligation, in any lifetime, is to be true to yourself. Beign true to anyone or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
--Richard Bach
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10-07-2006, 06:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Texas | | | "Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my gun."
"Never criticize someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."
"It's always darkest before dawn. That's the perfect time to steal your neighbor's paper."
"Eagles may soar, but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines" |
10-07-2006, 07:09 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cambridge, MA | | | "Practice makes permanent. A well thoughtout practice makes perfect." |
10-07-2006, 07:14 PM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | There's no "I" in "team". But there's several in "smug dickwit who bores people ****less by quoting irrelevant, moronic platitudes 'cos they think doing so will make them look infinitely wise."
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10-07-2006, 07:19 PM
| | | | "Every Morning brings the dawn of a new error."
"A Closed Mouth gathers no feet."
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10-07-2006, 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by bassybill There's no "I" in "team". But there's several in "smug dickwit who bores people ****less by quoting irrelevant, moronic platitudes 'cos they think doing so will make them look infinitely wise." | We have a winner 
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10-07-2006, 08:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Atlanta, GA | | | Not really inspirational, but some words I live by:
“Assumption is the mother of all mistakes.”
(I learned that from a Steven Segal movies, can you believe that?) |
10-07-2006, 09:24 PM
| | | | "All art is quite useless." - Oscar Wilde
Graeme |
10-07-2006, 09:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan | | | "...I always use to say, there is no "I" in team, but there is an "I" in pie. And there's an "I" in meat pie. Meat is the anagram of team... I don't... know... what I'm talking about." | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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