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“Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!”

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Author:Phil Anselmo

“Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop.”

Ifs Feet Car Active Activism Slogans Mantras Pedals Trademarks

Author:Bethann Hardison

“Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is pulling you up the mountain. You're headed toward Yosemite more than 4,000 feet of pounding the pedals. You are aware of every movement because your thighs feel tender with a sensation of pain. You push on, toward the final ascent into the valley. In front of you is a monster mountain-El Capitan. Your eyes grow wide. You take a deep breath. Suddenly, you feel only wonder.”

“By now, a million pedal strokes have etched the muscles in my legs with a single purpose: to power the crank and move the bicycle forward. Food flows into my body, bringing it power and strength. It is no longer a question of struggle. Now the journey evolves into the spiritual realm-where the pedaling becomes instinctive. It's a free-flow of energy that comes through my body and willingly expresses itself in the flight of the pedals.”

Body Spiritual Moving Purpose Energy Millions Struggle Journey Travel Flow Legs Flight Evolve Realms Muscles Strokes Bicycle Crank Pedals Power And Strength

Author:Frosty Wooldridge

“I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my fancy. Every rotation powers my traveling machine toward yet another date with destiny. The breeze clears my senses. The wind blows away my troubles. The sun shines upon my future. Spinning spokes create flashing metal upon an endless path-cycling feels like an infinite spiritual rush. It cleanses my mind. All my troubles fade into joy.”

“Bicycling unites physical harmony coupled with emotional bliss to create a sense of spiritual perfection that combines one's body, mind and spirit into a single moving entity. Bicycling allows a person to mesh with the sun, sky and road as if nothing else mattered in the world. In fact, all your worries, cares and troubles vanish in the rear view mirror while you bicycle along the byways of the world: you pedal as one with the universe.”

“I always feel like the less I think of stage presence, the better, because then I have to face the fact that I have really complicated guitar parts, I'm singing almost all the time, and I have like six pedals I've got to keep on top of”

Thinking Feels Facts Faces Stage Six Singing Guitar Complicated Pedals Stage Presence

Author:J. Robbins

“I'm all for stage diving, but just don't step on my pedals”

Steps Stage Diving Pedals

Author:Kurt Cobain

“Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.”

Humans Spiritual Poverty Activity Branches Human Activity Pedals

Author:H. L. Mencken

“I'm personally not into a guy who wears pedal pushers and a necklace.”

Guy Necklaces Pedals

Author:Sarah Silverman

“I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.”

I Can Sports Figures Faster Retiring Figure Skating Pedals

Author:Lance Armstrong

“I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.”

Years Made Use Home Remember Used Pieces Objects Taught Materials Mom Machines My Mom Singers Grandmother Flats My Grandmother Intriguing Sewing Pedals

Author:Bibhu Mohapatra

“When in doubt, make funny faces.”

Faces Doubt Diapers When In Doubt Pedals Funny Face

Author:Amy Poehler

“I've always dreamed that love would be effortlessLike a pedal falling to the ground; a dreamer following his dream.”

Dream Would Be Fall Following Dreamer Pedals

Author:Kelly Clarkson

“If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would be of widely differing sizes, it would take one person to steer and another to work the pedals and yet another to operate the user-friendly menu-driven dashboard, and if it would not drive straight ahead without a lot of effort, civil engineers would respond by building spiraling roads around each city.”

Ifs Way Persons Made Would Be Effort Cities Five Car Building Size Driven Wheels Friendly Software Users Engineers Steers Menus Pedals Vendors Civil Engineer Dashboards Specs User Friendly

Author:Erik Naggum

“I have an ElliptiGO. It's a standup bicycle. You don't pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact.”

Running Impact Bicycle Stride Pedals

Author:Dean Karnazes

“I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies.”

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Author:Nikki Sixx

“Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.”

People Thinking Mean Differences Reconciliation Pedals

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals.”

Pedals Tractors

Author:Sheri L. Dew

“I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!”

Way Legs Pedals Chopping

Author:Kirk Hammett

“The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.”

People Reality Aging Brutal Brake Pedals

Book:The Blue Zones, Second Edition: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest

Source: The Blue Zones, Second Edition: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest

“When the back-to-the-cities trend started taking root, albeit very unevenly, cities were so glad to finally land deals that they routinely overpaid, not having a solid grasp of the demographic and market forces they should have been channeling instead of subsidizing. It’s especially true for retail and entertainment projects, which generate very poor-quality jobs. I have yet to find a city that has figured out how to ‘take the foot off the pedal’ and stop over-subsidizing, even when gentrification becomes a problem.”

“With mountain biking, it's always that constant thing, negotiating singletrack, which I like, but for a road ride that rhythm is really Buddhist. When you get a good pedal stoke, it's that thing of everything works.”

Mountain Constant Rhythm Buddhist Negotiating Pedals Biking Stoke Mountain Biking

Author:Robin Williams

“I know that's a vague answer, but you just have to really pedal yourself around town and attempt to not get too discouraged. There is also a different kind of challenge for women, as they graduate into their 30s. It's hard. There isn't as much work. You're suddenly the aunt, or something. So, it's a process.”

Knows Kind Different Hard Process Challenges Answers Towns Graduates Different Kinds Vague Aunt Discouraged Pedals

Author:Anna Faris

“It's a big deal about whether or not gays can march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade and I have to say that on some level I kind of see their point. Because when you think about it, it is a real macho heterosexual event. Bunch of guys in short skirts on a cart made of rose pedals sharing a bag pipe. That's not for sissies.”

Thinking Kind Made Real Bigs Guy Levels Deals Events Gay Rose Bunch Bags March Big Deal Pipe Skirts Parades Carts Macho Pedals Sissy Short Skirts St Patrick St Patrick's Day

Author:Laura Kightlinger

“I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the side hairdos are not metal no matter what distortion pedal they have for their guitars.”

I Can Matter Names Sides Band Members No Matter What Guitar Sentences Metals Distortion Pedals Hairdos

Author:Chris Reifert

“I have a love of gear and pedals, from old pedals to new ones with new sounds. If I get depressed, I start looking for a certain type of pedal, learn the history, who and what it was made for, that kinda thing.”

Ifs Made Certain Sound Type Gears Pedals

Author:Hank Williams III

“Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way forward and pull back just a little on the stick. ... " One might as well explain music by saying that the further over to the right you hit the piano the higher it will sound. The makings of a flight are not in the levers, wheels, and pedals but in the nervous system of the pilot: physical sensations, bits of textbook, deep-rooted instincts, burnt-child memories of trouble aloft, hangar talk.”

“If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.”

Ifs Song Behinds Performances Instruments Guitar Productions Performers Acoustics Back In The Day Pedals

Author:Will Sheff

“If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.”

Ifs Feet Gas Spirals Pedals Snowball

Author:Sam Altman

“There are times when the vehicle is in the ready mode, there are no indications externally that the vehicle can move and yet if someone accidentally hits the pedal, say when someone's inside, the car will move.”

Ifs Moving Car Ready Vehicle Indication Pedals

Author:Jim Carroll

“There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same pedals, so the sounds tend to be the same. I am looking for different ways of doing that without having to spend days and weeks and months fooling around with pedals, which I don't enjoy.”

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Author:Paul Simon

“An engineer can look at the data, but he needs a translator from the cockpit - the driver - to understand it completely. For example, only the driver can tell you why he abruptly takes his foot off the gas pedal at a certain point. The data doesn't necessarily tell the engineer whether the driver made a mistake at that point or the car was acting up. The information the driver provides often helps determine the direction of development.”

Needs Looks Made Helping Certain Acting Mistake Feet Car Information Example Development Determine Data Gas Drivers Engineers Made A Mistake Translators Pedals Cockpit

Author:Michael Schumacher

“Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!”

Needs Gas Destination Brake Pedals

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.”

Play Keys Presses Right Time Pedals

Author:Johann Sebastian Bach

“If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.”

People Ifs Needs Church Teach Dare Hearing Ministers Glorious Pedals Church History

Author:Martin Luther

“The overwhelming joy of conversion or a new calling is often followed by feelings of being overwhelmed with duties and doctrines. The first joyous feelings are real and give one much-needed initial momentum. But the genuine exhilaration is soon followed by the need to perspire and to pedal.”

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Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“If the gas pedal on your car is shaped like a bare foot, you might be a redneck.”

Ifs Might Feet Car Gas Redneck You Might Be A Redneck If Pedals Redneck Humor Bare Feet

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“My hell is going to be the stairmaster wing of Dante's inferno, where they're gonna tape my feet to the pedals and the only music I get is Michael Bolton karaoke style.”

Hell Feet Style Wings Tape Inferno Pedals Karaoke

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Capital punishment, that thing scares me, it really does. I was talking to my friend about the electric chair, and he starts freakin' out. He's like 'the electric chair? That's too good for these people. That's too good for them'. Alright, how do we make the electric chair worse? How about this? They have to pedal a car battery to their own head. Is that ok? Is that enough, Mr. Hitler?”

People Doe Enough Talking Car My Friends Punishment Chairs Scare Electric Alright Batteries Capital Punishment Pedals Electric Chair

Author:Dave Attell

“Usually I don't think much in terms of interesting sounds. Although I think I want to get one of those whammy pedals, I forget what it's called and who makes it. It's got a whole bunch of different settings. You can play a note and it will raise the pitch when you push the pedal.”

Thinking Want Different Play Whole Sound Term Forget Interesting Raises Notes Setting Bunch Settings Pedals

Author:Mike Gordon

“It's amazing. It's actually build from old Siemens Telefunken transistors from the 60ties. There is like 10 in there. It's the most powerful distortion you can have. It does not only do distortion, it does so many weird things. You can't control it, it's sound different all the time. But it's an endless source for fantastic sounds. For example the track "Transit" is entirely made with this box. You have to put the guitar sound in. It's like a pedal.”

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Author:Christian Fennesz

“Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.”

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Author:Joshua Homme

“Working with devices and guitar pedals and mixers and synthesizers is what I do, and I prefer people not focus on that because it's kind of distracting from what the point should be. At least for me, it's to have the primacy of aurality in the experience of that evening.”

People Should Kind Focus Guitar Evening Devices Pedals Primacy Synthesizers

Author:Tim Hecker

“Every part of every song can have a totally different musical sound, because otherwise if I wanted to go from a verse of one song to the chorus of another, I'd have to go: "Uh, okay, press that pedal and then... press that pedal, and then press that pedal off."”

Ifs Different Wanted Song Sound Okay Presses Musical Verses Chorus Pedals

Author:Annie E. Clark

“If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I find inspiration from all these things in different songs of mine, shouldn't I be allowed to make any of this kind of music that I want? And it's the same for the comic books, why should I only make autobiographical stories? Or only political stories? Or only superhero stories? Or only comedy stories? I am a bit creatively desperate, when I sit with a pen and paper I am desperate for ANY idea that makes me excited, I don't care what kind of idea it is!”

“Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.”

Kind Different Wanted Stuff Sound Example Type Musician Library Piano Just One Frank Great Music Pedals Great Musician Zappa

Author:Gail Zappa

“It's not like you're being fake, it's just the way you color it, like a guitar player uses pedals or different effects. That's why I get so mad about people who are down on vocal reverb. It's not a crutch, people, it's an aesthetic choice!”

People Way Different Use Choices Player Effects Color Like You Mad Guitar Fake Aesthetic Vocal Guitar Player Crutches Pedals

Author:Kelly Hogan

“The irony is that I use computers every day of my life to do music because I edit all of my music in a computer. But when it comes to doing live processing, I prefer, as a performer with an instrument, not just having the computer as the only thing I have. I really prefer and find it much more flexible to have the limitations of pedals.”

Use Computer Music Is Instruments Limitation Irony Performers Flexible Edits Processing Pedals

Author:Zeena Parkins

“A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.”

Feels Mean Stills Behinds Keys Machines Weight Instruments Piano Vibrations Crude Resonance Ivory Pedals

Author:Tod Machover

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