Michel Petrucciani

Sometimes I think someone upstairs saved me from being ordinary.

My philosophy is to have a really good time and never to let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

The Smiths dream into my ear on this lost and lonely morning. I sing along like it is the only prayer I know (forgive me, Mother Mary).

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

We have enough in our country to let us deep into the springs of human life if we only cherished what we have.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I thought about writing a poem explaining how when you are lost at sea, even if you are rescued and survive, you never really come back. Then I realized everyone that’s ever been in love would already understand.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people say about your work.

I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

Instinct is probably the essence of past experience and knowledge stored up for later use. There are many, you know, who think that this life journey through the world is not the first one we have made. Haven’t you ever come across children who knew things that it was impossible for them to have learned? Have you ever gone to a place for the first time and felt sure that you had been there before? That’s one of the reasons I do not travel much.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.