Nita Strauss Quotes

I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

I think my best advice for young guitar players is that it's not an easy road - definitely not; female guitar player or male guitar player, it's not an easy road at all.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing my own music.

I've always wanted to be the best guitarist in the world, ever since I was eight years old.

I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

My progress on the piano and my motivation to practice increased dramatically when I caught a vision of my potential.

I think there are always people who, when they get the bug to play an instrument, they want to get as good as they can with it rather than just be simply adequate at it. You run into them every once in a while - some kid who wants to be the next Stevie Ray Vaughan, for whatever reason, and plays exactly like him.

I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

I'm not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don't I? That is my characteristic, and it's my identity as you hear it.

You have a natural groove inside of you, but the more you practise, the more comfortable you will be with your instrument.

I worked extremely hard at my craft and at being a good songwriter, being a good guitar player, being a good organist, because I didn't think people would take me seriously.

Generally, I think of myself as a guitar player, but when I do find the right song to sing lead on, I try to do my best.

Yeah, of course, there's always gonna be people with their own opinions about a female in rock music and men in rock music, but at the end of the day, it's just about being a good musician.

It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I'm always trying to learn something new or trying to be a real guitar player.

When you're up on stage, especially being a female guitar player in a male-dominated field, if they just see you're into it, and it's your passion, and you're just giving it your all - it's not, like, an accessory - then it's all cool.

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

It's hard to get a start as an instrumental guitar player. It's a much quicker route to be in a band, so I was always in a band and writing songs with singers, but I always had the dream in the back of my mind to make an instrumental record.

I don't think anything comes naturally; you just have to work very hard.

Talent is important, but how one develops and nurtures it is even more so.

Playing to a decent standard sometimes isn't enough.

There are times, like with Dire Straits, where you can get as close as you can be to being good at your instrument and not cross over to that tasteless place.

When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.

We want to be good at our craft, whether it's writing music or playing it live.