Steve Perry Quotes

• 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

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's always a price for what you want.

  Steve Perry

  Want, What You Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

  Steve Perry

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

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• 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

  Tragedy, Important, Stories

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• 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, Learning

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• 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, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• 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

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• You can’t embrace your whole life if you’re shut down.

  Steve Perry

  Embrace, Whole Life, Whole

  "Steve Perry: A Legend Finds Peace". Interview with Andrew McNeice, www.melodicrock.com. May 7, 2014.

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• Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.

  Steve Perry

  Character, Poverty, Building

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• The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

  Steve Perry

  Fear, Men, Needs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love New York, Chicago, London, St. Bart's and Italy but one of my fave cities in the whole world is San Francisco. Why? Those are all places that I love to go to cause it feels good to me personally when I'm there.

  Steve Perry

  New York, Cities, San Francisco

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• 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

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Song: Foolish Heart, Album: Street Talk

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• 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

  Change, Time, Hurt

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• 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

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Life, Nature, Self

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• 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

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Ego

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He'd once heard a story about a monastery on the top of some mountain in Japan or somewhere. After a long trek in the cold to get there, the monks would offer to sell you a cup of coffee. You had a choice: There was a two-dollar cup - or a two-hundred- dollar cup. When pressed to explain the difference, the monks were reported to say, 'A hundred and ninety-eight dollars.'

  Steve Perry

  Coffee, Eight, Japan

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• 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, Learning

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• If you don't want to go to college, don't go to Capital Prep. Go somewhere else.

  Steve Perry

  College, Somewhere Else, Want

  "Principal's tough love, high expectations gets kids into college" by Nadia Kounang, www.cnn.com.

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• 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

  Cheating, Mistake, Mean

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• 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

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