There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
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Related Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are prett... IAN ANDERSON My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I ... ALVIN LEE When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lew... D. A. PENNEBAKER I did not learn everything I need to know in kindergarten NANCY CARTWRIGHT I had an amazing experience doing 'Skins.' It was the first acting I'd ever done in my e... MITCH HEWER My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry an... DRAKE BELL I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the ... RANDY BACHMAN I don't care how famous a guitarist is, he ain't learned everything. There's always some... DAVID EDWARDS If I truly believe everything that's in that book, God is in control. He is in control. He's... SHAWN MICHAELS I knew I needed to lose some weight. When I was playing out there during the season and I was hurtin... ARRON SEARS Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived. CHARLEY PRIDE Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've... GLENN FREY When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything ... ERIC CARR If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was
promptly drummed out of us in firs... PETER MCWILLIAMS I was so attentive to my great-grandmother because I wanted to learn everything. I could barely reac... VANESSA RILEY Everything I need to know... I learned in kindergarten. ROBERT FULGHUM I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and ... ERIC CLAPTON I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio ... RONNIE MILSAP In this beginner-friendly book, called 'Learn to Program with Minecraft,' you will learn how... MARK FRAUENFELDER The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started.... JOHN MAYER My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, o... DAWN FRENCH Marvin Gaye is an inspiration to me. He was one of the first Motown musicians that my mom and dad in... CHARLIE PUTH I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a... ELIZABETH REASER When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that... ERIC CARR My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I ... NATALIA TENA My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only st... ODETTE ANNABLE It was more of a learning experience. I've learned tons here. Almost every day in practice you learn... BEN BISHOP I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song&... CARLY CRAIG I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare ... PATRICIA POLACCO I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be grea... ALEXA CHUNG I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar ... DON MCLEAN Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for ... FIONA MCINTOSH Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed... JOYCE MEYER Unfortunately, diplomacy was a dance I needed to learn. MARIA V. SNYDER I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play... TINA WEYMOUTH I come from a ballet background; I did ballet for 12 years and I consider that my theater. I told st... CHARLIZE THERON As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field... BARBARA DELINSKY I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'... MICK MARS My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks.... ISAIAH THOMAS I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew ... DONALD DUNN I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when m... DAVE GROHL It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years... JERRY ZUCKER I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been a... JESSICA ENNIS I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but becaus... C. S. LEWIS There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everyt... JOHN SANDFORD 'Paper Planes' by M.I.A. is very catchy. I like that, but I listen to everything from rap to... KESHIA KNIGHT PULLIAM I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented. JOHN MAYER Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I re... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a... MARYJANICE DAVIDSON You never learn everything on that guitar neck. DAVID EDWARDS Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - yo... ALTON BROWN I was always pretty competitive. But I know that I didn't learn everything I've learned until I was ... ANGIE MYERS I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. ... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN When I first got to WWE, the head of talent relations was John Laurinaitis, who is now my father-in-... DANIEL BRYAN When I first started working on 'Secret Diary,' I definitely felt like I needed to shape up.... ASHLEY MADEKWE I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend. JOAN CRAWFORD On long car rides, we would always listen to the 'Blues Brothers' soundtrack and try to emul... PHILLIPA SOO I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed. BROWNIE MCGHEE I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funn... DAVID JAVERBAUM The first play that I saw was 'Cyrano,' and I remember going home - I was like nine years ol... FRANCOIS ARNAUD I believe that you can always learn from observation. TAMARA TUNIE Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously... RACHEL TRUE I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where... JOAN JETT I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book... JUDY BLUME I've done maybe twelve of Shakespeare's plays. I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for ... CHARLES DANCE I think I'm a trivia nerd. I love to learn about everything. I'm curious. ADAM RODRIGUEZ When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childho... ELIE WIESEL I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason -... DREW BARRYMORE I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really t... VANESSA CARLTON I believe in hard work. I think that everything flows out of that. AISHA TYLER For reasons I didn't understand, I felt I needed to learn how to cook the food of France and kne... BILL BUFORD I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was... J. D. SOUTHER I got done what I needed to get done. I was able to get in there with my fullback and get everything... JAMAL LEWIS I don't want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I'm learning a lot about the golf game... FRED FUNK 'McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-tim... DUSTIN CLARE I believe in saying 'yes.' I love to work, and I always believe that the schedule can work o... TAMARA TUNIE The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my... FRANKIE VALLI I'm always trying to emulate guitar. Especially when I'm playing the trombone, that's wh... TROMBONE SHORTY I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in th... JACK REYNOR I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of usin... CHIAKI KURIYAMA Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes bu... PATSY KENSIT When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied... MOBY I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. JOHNNY RAMONE I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and de... KATARINA WITT I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everythin... ALBERTO MANGUEL I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a m... JACOB LATIMORE My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After tha... RICK YANCEY Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read. CHRISTIAN BAUMAN I needed to realise my role in the drama and it was only then that I could learn and be better for i... TONY CURL I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got i... ROBBIE ROBERTSON I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting w... ADAM BEACH Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ... JACK BRUCE I'm pretty sure I learned more in that day than I did in two years of Minor League ball. [I learned ... LOGAN KENSING My influences are, number one, hand to Jesus, Halle Berry. I think that she's so brilliant, and ... ALEXANDRA SHIPP I learned how to pitch better and how to compete better. I had a little slower velocity and learned ... AARON COOK I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies. ZACH BRAFF I don't take on a product unless I believe in it. I use everything that I sell. BILLY MAYS I am obsessed with you, angel. Addicted to you. You're everything i've ever wanted or needed, everyt... SYLVIA DAY When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to... DOLPH LUNDGREN
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RANDY NEWMAN It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well. RANDY NEWMAN I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my song... RANDY NEWMAN I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself tal... RANDY NEWMAN But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not ... RANDY NEWMAN Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that... RANDY NEWMAN I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people. RANDY NEWMAN I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology. RANDY NEWMAN I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected. RANDY NEWMAN Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind. RANDY NEWMAN If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you... RANDY NEWMAN I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I. RANDY NEWMAN It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't hav... RANDY NEWMAN Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an in... RANDY NEWMAN I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I l... RANDY NEWMAN My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics abou... RANDY NEWMAN Thank God for the potholes on memory lane. RANDY NEWMAN The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken ... RANDY NEUGEBAUER At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at ... RANDY NEUGEBAUER President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security. RANDY NEUGEBAUER We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in Americ... RANDY NEUGEBAUER For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a... RANDY NEUGEBAUER Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and o... RANDY NEUGEBAUER Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woma... RANDY NEUGEBAUER Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our b... RANDY NEUGEBAUER Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the fed... RANDY NEUGEBAUER