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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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Steve Vai
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
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Carle Place
New York
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I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do.
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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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My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.
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