“I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play.” — Billy Sheehan Quote

I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me.

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.

There's nothing I hate more than someone who speaks in the draft room with absolute conviction, but they have nothing to back it up.

If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.

I love anything by Deb Caletti. She's my absolute favorite young adult author. I love Ally Carter as well.