Steven Siro Vai Quotes
I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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Just remember we are always talking about the organization as a whole—not about the manufacturing department, or about one plant, or about one department within the plant. We are not concerned with local optimums.
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The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
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I was in the Navy and saw, first-hand, the effects of front-line combat.
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I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.
