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

Steve Vai

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Steve Vai
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
Actor
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Guitarist
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Carle Place
New York
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When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.
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I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.
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If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's eye, right? Your mind has an ear too. It's a kind of listening, but it's not using your ears to listen. It's listening with your inner ear, and that's what you want to translate onto the guitar.
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Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.
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Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.
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I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard that, it was a game-changer.
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A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then it will have a great ending.
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All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is envisioning how to play it or is trying to play along, that musician is using his or her 'ear' - the understanding and recognition of musical elements - for guidance.
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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.
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I'm always pursuing knowledge I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.
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I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what's going on.
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I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.
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If you want to play something that you can't, you need to see and hear yourself doing it in your minds eye. It will start to happen
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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.
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Ray and I do not draw salaries. Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.
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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.
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It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.
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If I remain true to what's in my heart, that's all the success I need.
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