Steven Siro Vai Quotes
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.Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
Wendell Berry -
Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
Karl Liebknecht
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
Ed Markey -
We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
Gary Bettman -
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
Calvin Johnson -
I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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Lying is the rule, not the exception.
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But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken
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I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90s, I was all about reruns of 'The Price Is Right.' I knew all the prices from the '70s.
Kate Micucci -
I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.
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My life was changed in one breath from God.
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I'm not saying I'd already done anything, actually, but I'd passed my experimental streak.
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The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz