Mike Portnoy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To me, the most important tool is not a physical or a technical one. It's more of a cerebral one. It's your brain. It's about having an interest in experimenting musically, perhaps touching on several different genres of music. No doubt, the most important tool is the mind. It's the willingness to experiment freely.
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One of my biggest concerns was how defensive the fans would be over The REV's drum throne. I'm grateful they have been welcoming.
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I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.
-- Mike Portnoy
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And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.
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Most of us are visual learners. Some of us are auditor learners – we learn by hearing. Many of us are kinesthetic learners. We learn by doing, touching, feeling. I have found … that we need an educational model that is current, that meets the need of our students. America must understand that she needs Muslims.
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It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?
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We’re now recognizing that the mind, which is an energetic field of thought which you can read with EEG wires on your brain or with a new process called magnetoencephalography (MEG), which reads the field without even touching the body. So it basically says that when you’re processing with your brain, you’re broadcasting fields.
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Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
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It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot
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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
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The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.
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