Steven Siro Vai Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
-
There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
-
I enjoy Saturday night racing.
-
I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
-
I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
-
Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
-
I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
-
Acting was something I had to do.
-
With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.
-
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
-
Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
-
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
-
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
-
It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
-
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
-
When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
-
People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
-
I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
-
On a movie, it's always better to stay invisible as much as you can to keep things calm. I like to whisper to my cameraman, I like to whisper to my actors, and whoever else I've gotten to whisper to.
-
I've always had a fascination for everything surrounding things that are unexplainable. Not surprising that my first movie was a horror film, even though, of course, at the time I had no experience writing horror music.
-
Know what your strengths are, but also keep in mind what your weaknesses are; always work on your weaknesses.
-
I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.
-
In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.
-
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.
