Steve Perry famous quotes

03-29-2025

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.
-- Steve Perry

#Teacher #Art #Teaching
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own, including logic and morality. Even among humans, morality is ignored when expedient. Why should we expect more from an alien life form than we demand from ourselves?
-- Steve Perry

#Self #Suffering #Demand
We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.
-- Steve Perry

#Important #Tragedy #Stories
Theres always a price for what you want.
-- Steve Perry

#Want #What You Want
A whole other generation is coming up to me now - anywhere from 8 to 22 years old - wanting me to sign autographs. They think Journey was awesome.
-- Steve Perry

#Journey #Thinking #Years
I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.
-- Steve Perry

#Who I Am #Judging #Singing
I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.
-- Steve Perry

#Rock And Roll #Rocks #Ego
I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.
-- Steve Perry

#Beautiful #Play #Needs
What we're focusing on is the images that were in people's minds being replaced by fresh images, to make way for the rebirth of New Orleans. We're showing the other side.
-- Steve Perry

#New Orleans #People #Mind
Foolish heart, hear me calling. Stop before you start falling. Foolish heart, heed my warning; you've been wrong before. Don't be wrong anymore.
-- Steve Perry

#Fall #Heart #Calling
No, now he didn't want to let himself get too close because he knew it wasn't going to last. Good stuff never lasted. Change would come and wipe it away, and what was the point? It hurt too much every time it was ripped away and he was getting tired of losing pieces of himself. Pretty soon there wouldn't be much left, just scraps of gristle and bone without feeling. He didn't need that
-- Steve Perry

#Hurt #Time #Tired
When they'd been on the run, with death maybe lying in wait around any corner, they had never been more alive. When each day might be your last, it made a big difference. You couldn't maintain that state forever, of course; the stress would eat you alive, but putting yourself at risk did bring out your best-or your worst
-- Steve Perry

#Running #Stress #Lying
If you don't want to go to college, don't go to Capital Prep. Go somewhere else.
-- Steve Perry

#College #Want #Preps
You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.
-- Steve Perry

#Running #Losing #Embrace
The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance
-- Steve Perry

#Fear #Men #Needs
Well. There was noting to be done for it. Things had happened as they did, time's arrow had yet to be reversed by humans, done was done. If a man spent his life looking over his shoulder at every possible branching of his path he could have taken, he would never accomplish anything. One must learn from history so as not to repeat it, but one must not waste one's energy or time worrying about what might have been. Sorry . . . but people die every day and the galaxy continues on quite well without them. Consider yourself lucky you are one of those as yet unselected by the Fates.
-- Steve Perry

#Sorry #Taken #Fate
He had regrets, of course, but not so many that he would lose any sleep over them. Life surprised him now and then and he didn't much care for surprises, unless he was passing them out. But - what was to be done? You had to deal with the reality, he had learned that over the years, no matter how much you didn't like it
-- Steve Perry

#Regret #Sleep #Reality
There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.
-- Steve Perry

#Powerful #Sibling #Men
This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the years would have been fatal, had his luck not been strongly good. He had cheated death dozens of times, but that did not mean he could take it as a given. A man needed only one fatal mistake to end the game.
-- Steve Perry

#Mistake #Mean #Men
I'm no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn't stopped there... And touring is a lot of work. I'm impressed when I see people like Eric Clapton out there. Gee whiz, Eric, give me a break! I know it's gotta hurt somewhere.
-- Steve Perry

#Hurt #Spring #Giving

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