Steven Siro Vai Quotes
The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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A novel is not a rant.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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I like to play 'Battleship,' and I also like 'Wordle' on iPhone. These are good things to play while you're on set. 'Words with Friends' is also great.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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He who prays most receives most.
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I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.'
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I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
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By an ambitious chieftain, aiming only to aggrandize himself and establish his power, the subject might have been regarded in a different light; but the designs and actions of Washington centred in nobler objects, the freedom, tranquillity, and happiness of his country, in which he was to participate equally with every other citizen, neither seeking nor expecting any other preeminence than that of having been an instrument in the hand of Providence.
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The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.
