My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.


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I like having a battleground district because I think that's real-life America.
PETE GALLEGO
When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player...
PETE ROSE
I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a diffe...
PETE ROSE
Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?
PETE ROSE
I think I ended up on 'People's '50 Most Beautiful People' list just because of eyel...
PETE WENTZ
If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.
PETE HAMILL
Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.
PETE DOCTER
Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?
PETE DOHERTY
The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could ...
PETE WENTZ
I was the class clown in high school, but I always took it too far, so nobody liked me. I was annoyi...
PETE DAVIDSON
Andre Agassi was my rival in the '90s, and I think as we got older we sort of transcended the ga...
PETE SAMPRAS
Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. ...
PETE ROSE
I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the groun...
PETE DOMENICI
People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don'...
PETE ROZELLE
The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't t...
PETE HAMILL
I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like ...
PETE WENTZ
The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are pla...
PETE ROSE
I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
PETE ROSE
Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shel...
PETE EARLEY
'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive.
PETE HAMILL
If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But th...
PETE SAMPRAS
One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the gene...
PETE GALLEGO
I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I h...
PETE SEEGER
Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while t...
PETE PLOSZEK
I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.
PETE WENTZ
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world...
PETE SEEGER
The entire issue is that women bear a disproportionate share of the hard work. Birthing, carrying, t...
PETE SESSIONS
I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come afte...
PETE SEEGER
Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old....
PETE ROSE
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine pri...
PETE SEEGER
At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audie...
PETE POSTLETHWAITE
Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperati...
PETE GALLEGO
In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in th...
PETE SAMPRAS
Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support ...
PETE WENTZ
Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, dili...
PETE HAMILL
I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.
PETE WENTZ
If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I...
PETE BURNS
I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a ge...
PETE ROSE
Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth ...
PETE MCCLOSKEY
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it ma...
PETE SEEGER
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
PETE SEEGER
I think the Internet is uniquely suited to this free market idea: that everyone on the Internet that...
PETE ASHDOWN
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation sys...
PETE JOHNSON
Not everybody has to sing the melody.
PETE SEEGER
Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.
PETE ROSE
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
PETE ROSE
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make ...
PETE INCAVIGLIA
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top.
PETE DYE
You can never overlook a team in this conference. You can never do that.
PETE ASADOURIAN
We're in a pretty good position, we need three wins to attain one of main goals, to make the tournam...
PETE ASADOURIAN
Berlin's a great team. They're good, it's post-season play and a lot of our guys haven't been in the...
PETE ASADOURIAN
Defense got us here and defense is going to carry us through. We've been emphasizing defense since D...
PETE ASADOURIAN
We didn't even know. We came out. The boys took the floor early and we heard all the commotion. It w...
PETE ASADOURIAN
We were getting shots off but nothing was falling for us early. I think guys came out a little tight...
PETE ASADOURIAN