Nita Strauss Quotes

Nita Strauss

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 7, 1986

The guitar player that I'm doing my solo tour with, Angel Vivaldi, he's been releasing incredible guitar albums and people just don't really know about them because instrumental guitar isn't really at the forefront of music these days.

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When you're your own business, and my business is called Nita Strauss Incorporated, and I am my business, so it's not like I get to stop working at 5 p.m. and go home and do other things. It's a full-time job.

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I really hope that with my album, because I have a bit more of a mainstream crossover following, I really hope that I can introduce some new listeners to this world of instrumental music.

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I think the WWE Universe have really accepted me, because they know I'm one of them.

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I always was a fan of Alice Cooper's, but I got a new appreciation for his music playing in his band. It's really amazing to see how his music transcends age.

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I started playing guitar because of instrumental guitar music.

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All my real heroes made instrumental albums. All my own career has been spent playing in bands, but I never forgot that dream of what inspired me to pick up the guitar in the first place.

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The solo album is really my way of branching out and doing my own thing. I'm mostly known for playing other people's music, so this is a way to just do something that is purely from my heart and my creativity. So it's really exciting.

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During those years with the Iron Maidens, I felt I had to be great and really prove myself at every single show.

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I dreamed of recording a guitar album since I started playing, but I just never felt ready. I never felt like I was the player that I wanted to be. But I had this epiphany: you're never going to feel ready.

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To put my name on a track as a solo artist was a big deal to me. There was no band to act as a buffer.

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And, of course, there were some times when I had writer's block and I had a hard time figuring out how to express what I wanted to express.

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I record everything myself, I engineer everything myself.

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Me personally, I've had really great experiences. I'd be lying if I said it was all roses and perfect, but, by and large, the metal community is so incredibly supportive.

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And I would say that the main thing that I faced as a female in this industry was being underestimated. But being underestimated isn't always a bad thing. It's nice to get out there and blow people's minds when they think you're not gonna be any good.

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I think as long as you're going out and treating everything with respect - you're not going in there acting like a helpless girl - as long as you don't go in there demanding special treatment, I think you won't receive any special treatment.

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Go in, do a great job, be super professional.

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It never really occurred to me to seek out a female influence, a female musician.

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I don't really find it to be a man-dominated industry. I mean, I guess when you look at it, it is, but I don't really look at it as a female or male thing, or female or male guitar players or whatever.

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I love to play guitar. I've never really been the type of guitar player that goes, 'I'll only play this style of music or that thing.'

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