"... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the……" — Steve Vai
"... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from"
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79 Quotes by Steve Vai
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The tone is in your fingers, not in your amp or effects.
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The cool thing about playing is that the more you do it, the better you get.
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