John Quotes

Most people would rather sit on a plane for two hours than spend two days on a train, but there's nothing comparable to taking a relaxing rail journey with your family or good friends.

We are the first to ever publicly advertise we dont test on animals.

The two most important things to athletes, playing time and money.

Teenage dreams so hard to beat

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.

Voltaire was a smart cookie.

You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.

The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on.

I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway.

Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.

While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.

Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.

The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

When you're a little bit dumb and naive things get done that no one believed could be done.

If you haven't made a mistake I cast a jaundiced eye, because you're probably not doing anything.

The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment.

We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the album.

I went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar.

Going to the Grammys, being nominated for a Grammy, that was a really big deal for me, for us as a band.

Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has never seen us before and hearing it for the first time. We are aware of that.

In Japan they're definitely more over the top. They had four Boogie stacks and 20 guitars. But otherwise it's pretty much the same thing, except there's a translator. It's really nice.

I've been fortunate to work with companies that I endorse because I love their gear. Whether Music Man, Dunlop, or DiMarizo to me these companies have supported me in such a way that's invaluable.

There's different levels of where we do well throughout Europe. Fortunately, for us, it's pretty great all throughout it.

I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.

We have a storage close by where I live, that's very organised. My guitar tech, Matty organised it all, labeled everything.

Almost 15 with music, we have so many guitars that we developed over the years. The latest one is 'The Majesty' guitar, which I'm really proud of.

The style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a lot of commercial exposure.

I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am.

Jordan Ruddes does [have a home studio], but it's all self-contained. I'll be the only guy with a fully built recording studio. So they'll have to come to me.

As far as bands doing that in a way where they think they're going to fight the government, the only people they're really hurting is the fans.

Now that we're established and we have a history we know that we can expect people to show up and to have a good time.

It's hard to answer that from my own perspective because when I'm playing I know where it is coming from and the sources.

Songs like "Spirit Carries On" really gets the audience moved and on the same page. It's challenging and all so much fun to play.

Since I'm in a band, and I'm not usually in situations where I need to read, it doesn't come up as often, and I don't rely on it as much.

I think I'm a father, but a father of three kids! :)

When we first started and started hitting new places for the first time, you kinda didn't know, because we were new. Sometimes we played tiny little clubs and sometimes we'd play a larger place.

Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.

I somehow always found the right people on my own to jam with as well as playing with all my buddies. I didn't get to a point where I was auditioning for any bands.

You're about to walk on stage and play together for the next few hours so you want to feel connected and make sure that everyone is in the same head space; a good head space.

While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view.

I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.

When late I attempted your pity to move, Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love But-why did you kick me downstairs?

The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

No amount of anxiety or worry is going to make any difference to anything that's going to happen anyway, so why let yourself feel so heavy?

Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.