Effects Quote by Steve Vai Download Open image “The tone is in your fingers, not in your amp or effects.” — Steve Vai ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Effects Fingers Inspirational Love Tone
At the end of the day, you, as the player, create the tone coming out of the amp. The gear is part of it… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
If I'm going to buy a new guitar, I take it to a good 'hot' room, like a tiled bathroom, and listen to the… — Richard Betts Copy Share Image
.. the whole idea is that if you turn your amp up to 10, you should still be able to play at a whisper… — Mike Bloomfield Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago with guitars and amps or anything else, whatever band I'm in, I'm just going to sound like me… — Pat Smear Copy Share Image
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.… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
In Sonic Youth, at the end of 'Expressway to Yr. Skull,' we'd tap on the backs of our guitars to get this low-level feedback,… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out… — Michael Schenker Copy Share Image
I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar. — Don Johnson Copy Share Image
I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made. — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
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… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical.… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff. — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today,… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
There's very notable dynamics in all of the collaborations I've done. It's hard to say if one is more important than the other, but if I had to think of all situations and point to one band that I enjoyed most it would be when I was eight years old. I had a band with my little sister and the… — Steve Vai Copy Share
I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that.… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really… — Jess Weixler Copy Share Image
The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run… — Clive Barker Copy Share
The beautiful image today means nothing. It's worthshit. In fact, it's almost as if it has the opposite effect, becauseyou're just like everything else… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
