Steven Siro Vai Quotes
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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Most of my instruments are handmade.
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I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
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I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.
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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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The initial notion for 'Check Your Head' was just all three of us getting back to playing instruments.
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I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so — I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.
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I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
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Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.
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Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
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My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.
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I realized that very young - that a life where you don't live to your full potential, or you don't experiment, or you're afraid, or you hesitate, or there are things you know you should do but you just don't get around to them, is a life that I'd be miserable living, and the only way to feel that I'm on the right path is just to be true to myself, whatever that may be, and that tends to come with stepping out of something that's maybe safe or traditional.
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In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.
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There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.
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Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.
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Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.
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Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
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The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.
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I don't want to play old music. To me, it is fighting battles that are already over and calling yourself a warrior. For me, I see no courage or adventure in doing the old thing over again. If others want to, that's for them. For myself, I have to move on. Life is too short to live in the past. There is a lot to be done.
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The only pressure you put on yourself is the one you want to. No one else can pressurise you.
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The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.
