Steve Vai Quotes - Page 2

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• I've learned over the years that you're going to be most successful at the things you're most excited to do. Every artist has a special set of tools. When you really use those tools, and you make yourself feel really good about the product you create, I think you'll find an audience for it. I've been very fortunate in that respect.

  Steve Vai

  Successful, Thinking, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Critisism is just reflection of the person that speaking

  Steve Vai

  Reflection, Persons

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• I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

  Steve Vai

  Passion, Guitar, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We may be human, but we're still animals.

  Steve Vai

  Animal, May, Humans

  Song: Liberty

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• The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more.

  Steve Vai

  Tired, Trying, Sound

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

  Steve Vai

  Rocks, Historical, Talent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.

  Steve Vai

  Real, Player, Rocks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.

  Steve Vai

  Art, Musician, Would Be

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.

  Steve Vai

  Guitar, Years, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.

  Steve Vai

  Song, Thinking, Artist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.

  Steve Vai

  Home, School, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.

  Steve Vai

  Spiritual, Balance, Today

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.

  Steve Vai

  Successful, Rocks, Insane

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

  Steve Vai

  Guitar, Play, Acoustics

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

  Steve Vai

  Thinking, Artist, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's very notable dynamics in all of the collaborations I've done. It's hard to say if one is more important than the other, but if I had to think of all situations and point to one band that I enjoyed most it would be when I was eight years old. I had a band with my little sister and the kid across the street. We sat around all day playing music and it was bliss. I didn't have any expectations or do it for anyone or worry about selling an album. That was really my favorite band. We were called Hot Chocolate.

  Steve Vai

  Kids, Thinking, Eight

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.

  Steve Vai

  Littles, Little Things, Moments

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I'm just not interested.

  Steve Vai

  Spiritual, Book, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

  Steve Vai

  Musician, Unconventional, Conventions

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• As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.

  Steve Vai

  Musician, Looks, Evolution

  Interview with Alan Di Perna, www.guitarworld.com. November 30, 2012.

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• I think the thing that I got most from working with Frank Zappa is that I was able to see someone who completely independent. The most beautiful thing about Frank was that he was completely in the moment and present and eternally creative.

  Steve Vai

  Beautiful, Independent, Thinking

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.

  Steve Vai

  Issues, Insecurity, Groups

  Interview with Alan Di Perna, www.guitarworld.com. November 30, 2012.

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• You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

  Steve Vai

  Play, Acoustic Guitar, Acoustics

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

  Steve Vai

  Guitar, World, Instruments

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• The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

  Steve Vai

  Tunes, Miserable, Instruments

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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