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Steve Vai Quotes

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

Steve Vai

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1960

Topics

Artist Independent Top Tone Arch

'Chronicle' could have been a video-game movie. The original 'RoboCop' and the remake could have come from video games.

Michael De Luca

Video Games Games Original Come Been

I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.

John Travolta

Work Marriage Relationship Thought

I think you would have to be a nihilist to say that we are not making progress on cancer, just like you'd have to be hubristically optimistic to say that we have conquered cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Progress Think You Say Cancer Just

Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades.

Trombone Shorty

Musicians Streets Playing Started

'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. What he is able to enjoy is something that may not be available to everybody. But it's about the value of being willing to get and willing to give good advice.

Tom Hanks

Good Job Value Advice Enjoy Human

I believe it's wrong to say someone can't do his or her job because of their heritage.

Rob Portman

Job Believe Someone Heritage Wrong

I can't say that I am a DVD junkie. I see most films that I want to see in the theater, and so most of my DVD-watching is catching up with the occasional movies that I missed or revisiting a film that I really care about, in which case I really want the extra channels, because it's a movie that I already love, and I want to know more about it.

Ron Howard

Love I Am Care Know Movies Channels

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

Rudy Rucker

Process Rules Computation

Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same person? Or people like Johnny Depp, who can play Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands. I am so interested in the transformation, in not knowing anything about them and watching somebody create a character. I'm not really interested in personalities.

Rupert Friend

Character I Am People Transformation

I've had a great time doing it - being able to say yes to a couple of amazing shows.

Mary Steenburgen

Great Time Amazing Doing Say Yes

Being an American doesn't mean that you're guaranteed a high wage. You have to be productive, and we have to create a very low-cost, efficient place to do business, and we've let all that slip in America.

Michael Porter

Business American America You Create

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

Donald Miller

Good Responsibility Blame Someone