Mike Petrucci Quotes & Sayings

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world. — Brendon Burchard

First and foremost, with everybody we wanted to see if they can pull off the songs, play them correctly, and that they it felt right musically. That's something Mike [Mangini] did, it felt like the band. He really gets the style and delivers in a powerful metal way. — John Petrucci

Personality wise, we are all kindred spirits. I've said this before; if we [with Mike Mangini ] ever went to high school together we would have been friends. He is just one of us! We felt that immediate connect. — John Petrucci

He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail. — Victor Hugo

We auditioned a lot of great drummers; every one of them was world class. We had a lot of fun playing with each of them and had some great jams. With Mike [Mangini] it was just something really special about what was going on. — John Petrucci

To everything there is an end - except fear. — Phyllis Bottome

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Children should be seen and not herded — Bill Liao

Make prayer a habit you can't live without. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it. — Benjamin Spock

Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person's body. I'm boring. I go to movies. I read. That's about it. — Alexis Bledel

Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing ... — Celia Fremlin

As far as I'm concerned you can fuck whomever you please, though my general observation has been that, as far as the reputations of young women are concerned, the less fucking the better. The reverse is true for young men of course. Hardly fair, but then life is unfair in so many ways, this one hardly seems worth commenting on. — Joe Abercrombie