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Steve Vai Quotes

American - Musician | June 6, 1960 -

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

Simple Me Growing Up Blues Growing

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.

People Voice Passionate Human Hard

I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.

People You I Can Know Passionate

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

Life Love Me Deep Wrong Understand

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

Time Miserable Keep Only Only Time

If I remain true to what's in my heart, that's all the success I need.

Success Heart True Need Remain

As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.

Politics People Me Deep Think You

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

Great Queen Deep Purple Led Zeppelin

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.

Music Listening American Try Big

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.

Song Think Picture Feel Camera You

I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, 'I could put this guitar on this track...' and so on.

Me Song Guitar Loved Create Young

My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.

Past Interesting Treasure Write Just

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