Schon Quotes & Sayings

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band. — Neal Schon

There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more. — Neal Schon

Growing up in that fashion is a breeding ground for insecurity and doubt; it also leaves you questioning motives. It took me a long time to see the world as I want it without constantly looking for approval. I still fall, but I'm better suited for survival. — Damon Runyon

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff. — Neal Schon

Raffin and Bann stood together, propped against the wall and against each other, half dozing. At one point, Raffin, not knowing he had one small, curious witness, gave Bann a sleepy kiss on the ear.
Bitterblue had wondered that about them. I t was nice when something in the world became clear. Especially when it was a nice thing. — Kristin Cashore

I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that. — Neal Schon

You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it. — Neal Schon

When I go out with Journey, it is a complete cakewalk. I can afford my own bus. — Neal Schon

I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow. — Neal Schon

Coffee makes me go crazy. — Taylor Schilling

In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band. — Neal Schon

The world now knows that Steve Perry is welcome to come and sing with us anytime he wants. — Neal Schon

Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing. — Neal Schon

I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts. — Neal Schon

You are a compilation of choices. And you can control that. — Brian Bennudriti

We are taking close to $10 a CD the way we are doing it, and I think that is a fair amount to split up between five guys. Each of us makes like two bucks a record. — Neal Schon

Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more. — Terry Goodkind

One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power. — Robert Bresson

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly. — Neal Schon

The only thing I use the Rolling Stone for is toilet paper when I run out. — Neal Schon

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs. — Neal Schon

competent practitioners usually know more than they can say. They exhibit a kind of knowing-in-practice, most of which is tacit. Nevertheless, — Donald A. Schon

Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
[Ger., Wer kann was Dummes, wer was Kluges denken,
Das nicht die Vorwelt schon gedacht.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great. — Neal Schon

At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and skill of others. Nothing more. — Ilona Andrews

I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going. — Neal Schon

Anytime people do something consciously for the last time, Samuel Johnson is reported to have remarked, they feel sad. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Good metaphors are "generative."13 The psychologist Donald Schon introduced this term to describe metaphors that generate "new perceptions, explanations, and inventions." Many — Chip Heath

We are doing what Prince did. Everyone that comes to a show billed as An Evening with Journey will get our new CD. We figured that is our best store because they are our biggest fans. — Neal Schon

During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it. — Neal Schon

World Play is very '70s arena rock, very raw and in your face, and that's what we wanted. We recorded it in a very off-the-cuff manner and didn't really plan out how we were going to play. My solos are first takes. — Neal Schon

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it. — Leon Brown

I'm just getting older and better. — Neal Schon

I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this a wide? What are you doing? If I look up and notice the camera I go 'Oh, it's a big one today, must be an IMAX.' And that's kinda it for me because it doesn't affect what I'm doing. — Christian Bale

What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end. — Neal Schon

I credit Google for having the foresight to identify threats to its main business of selling advertising against search results. The potential loss of market share in the mobile space led them to the Android acquisition. — Barry Ritholtz

Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them. — Neal Schon

My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me. — Neal Schon

UncondiTional love is a beauTiful Thing. JusT be sure To
give iT after your conditions have been meT :P — Sherry Argov

Anything that exists is possible. — Mahatma Gandhi