Allan Holdsworth famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Most people/musicians hear things differently and what might please one might not please another. One man's meat is another man's poison. Don't be afraid to dig, the most important people/musicians in my life always have. If you do decide to dig, don't always expect to come up with a clean face. It's o.k. The most important lessons to me have been learned by trial and error. All I'm trying to say is "try to find yourself," as I have.
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I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking, I'd go NUTS if I sat around worrying about other people.
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Don't let your hands dictate what you think you can do. Look at fingerboard charts and imagine your eyes dancing on the notes you want to play, and forget about whether your hands can do it or not. Just try it.
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Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't leaving being musician because I use to like it when noone came to see me playing, because I didn't feel any pressure. I can enjoy myself and probably play better. Sometimes when I play, people expect something of me, and I'm not always able to to that. Quite often. So I get totaly nervous
-- Allan Holdsworth
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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