Nita Strauss Quotes

Nita Strauss

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 7, 1986

I saw Jennifer Batten do a cool guitar solo before I ever saw any other girl do a cool guitar solo.

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I've worked my entire life to be this busy. I've worked my entire career to have this many things to do and this many emails to answer. Even when it's overwhelming, it's still a blessing.

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There were always people in the audience that judged me on the way I looked. They just assumed, because I was a girl, that I wasn't going to be any good, and it motivated me to improve and nail it every night.

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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.

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So, as I step out and take these first steps on this journey to do my own thing, I didn't want to have to get anybody's approval on anything. I didn't want to have to ask a record label 'Is this okay for the album cover? What time do you think I should go on tour this year?'

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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.

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You see opportunity... Opportunity is like a window: every once in a while, it opens, if you're ready for that opportunity. So be prepared, work hard, and follow your dreams.

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It's 2019. People aren't going to shows to watch a band play the song exactly like the record.

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I'm pretty easy-going and pretty happy most of the time.

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Nothing is more important to me than love.

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Three of my heroes that have gotten clean and sober that I got to ask for advice were Alice Cooper, Nikki Sixx and Zakk Wylde.

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The thing that drove me, and the thing that still drives me today to stay sober is all the blessings that have come into my life since this happened.

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I started playing guitar because of seeing Steve Vai.

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I might come across like kind of a show-off onstage and stuff, but I like collaborating with people.

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All of these really strong females making names for themselves in what were traditionally male-dominated spaces. And I'm not usually one to get too hung up on the male-vs.-female side of things, but it is interesting to see the dynamic shifting and it's happening across the board. It's cool to be a part of that.

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I'm 30, and I've been touring since I was 15. So it's been a long journey to get here.

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The great thing about the Alice Cooper camp is that its a true family and there's definitely a reason why he's had such a long and successful career spanning over 50 years. You don't get that far by not keeping good people around you.

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There are no apologies for being a female in heavy metal and especially not in 2019.

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Every band wants to play in every city. We all do.

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You can be in the band, you can go buy your own guitar strings at Guitar Center, you can go and do everything the boys can do and you're not the oddity anymore.

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