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Steve Vai

My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it’s just not on my radar.

– Steve Vai

Steve Vai

I don’t think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.

– Steve Vai

Steve Vai

I’m a big fan of cultural music, and that’s how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.

– Steve Vai

Steve Vai

When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you’re cheating yourself out of a really good time.

– Steve Vai

Steve Vai

When I was a teenager in the ’70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

– Steve Vai

Steve Vai

As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they’re iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don’t think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.

– Steve Vai

Steve Vai

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

– Steve Vai

Steve Vai

I can tell you this: I’m an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.

– Steve Vai

Steve Vai

It’s very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can’t hear the inflections in your voice.

– Steve Vai

Steve Vai

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

– Steve Vai

Steve Vai

The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I’m tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It’s about the notes more.

– Steve Vai

Steve Vai

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.

– Steve Vai

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