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Steve Perry Biography

Stephen Ray Perry (born January 22, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer of the rock band Journey during their most commercially successful periods from 1977 to 1987 and again from 1995 to 1998. Perry had a successful solo career between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s.

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If you don't want to go to college, don't go to Capital Prep. Go somewhere else.

Capital, College, Prep, Somewhere Else, Want

I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.

Judging, Person, Said, Singing, Who I Am

He had regrets, of course, but not so many that he would lose any sleep over them. Life surprised him now and then and he didn't much care for surprises, unless he was passing them out. But - what was to be done? You had to deal with the reality, he had learned that over the years, no matter how much you didn't like it

Done, Learning, Lose, Regret, Sleep, Years

No, now he didn't want to let himself get too close because he knew it wasn't going to last. Good stuff never lasted. Change would come and wipe it away, and what was the point? It hurt too much every time it was ripped away and he was getting tired of losing pieces of himself. Pretty soon there wouldn't be much left, just scraps of gristle and bone without feeling. He didn't need that

Change, Hurt, Left, Let, Losing, Time

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

Ego, Fan, Hall, Rock, Rock And Roll, Rocks

He'd once heard a story about a monastery on the top of some mountain in Japan or somewhere. After a long trek in the cold to get there, the monks would offer to sell you a cup of coffee. You had a choice: There was a two-dollar cup - or a two-hundred- dollar cup. When pressed to explain the difference, the monks were reported to say, 'A hundred and ninety-eight dollars. '

Coffee, Japan, Ninety Eight, Top, Trek, Two

Theres always a price for what you want.

Price, Want, What You Want

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

Art, Doctor, Teacher, Teaching

When they'd been on the run, with death maybe lying in wait around any corner, they had never been more alive. When each day might be your last, it made a big difference. You couldn't maintain that state forever, of course; the stress would eat you alive, but putting yourself at risk did bring out your best-or your worst

Course, Lying, Maintain, Maybe, Running, Stress

You can’t embrace your whole life if you’re shut down.

Down, Embrace, Life, Whole, Whole Life

Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.

Building, Character, Overrated, Poverty

We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.

Enough, Important, Rebuilding, Spirit, Stories, Tragedy

I'm no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn't stopped there. . . And touring is a lot of work. I'm impressed when I see people like Eric Clapton out there. Gee whiz, Eric, give me a break! I know it's gotta hurt somewhere.

Arthritis, Clapton, Hurt, People, Spring, Stopped

Well. There was noting to be done for it. Things had happened as they did, time's arrow had yet to be reversed by humans, done was done. If a man spent his life looking over his shoulder at every possible branching of his path he could have taken, he would never accomplish anything. One must learn from history so as not to repeat it, but one must not waste one's energy or time worrying about what might have been. Sorry. . . but people die every day and the galaxy continues on quite well without them. Consider yourself lucky you are one of those as yet unselected by the Fates.

Accomplish, Die, Learning, Life, Sorry, Taken

I love New York, Chicago, London, St. Bart's and Italy but one of my fave cities in the whole world is San Francisco. Why? Those are all places that I love to go to cause it feels good to me personally when I'm there.

Cities, Good, Love, New York, Places, San Francisco

There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.

Disproving, Fend, Men, Powerful, Sibling, Thing