Top 28 Joe Satriani Quotes
#1. Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't *you* want to play guitar?
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#2. When you're a teacher, you realize that you have to clearly encapsulate some unrelated technical ideas that you take for granted and understand and put them into words so someone else will understand them.
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#3. I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.
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#4. I see something in her eyes, sends me to a better place.
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#6. There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.
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#8. When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.
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#9. I can embarrass myself very easily on guitar. It's funny because people say to me I can play anything; I'm God on the guitar. But I could make a big list of everything I can't play ... I'm grateful that people don't notice that.
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#10. Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear ...
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#11. I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.
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#12. Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.
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#13. Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly
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#14. I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.
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#15. 18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".
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#16. When you hear something you don't like, don't ever play it again.
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#17. If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book ... that's no fun at all.
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#18. Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.
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#19. My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.
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#20. I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.
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#21. I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise.
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#22. When you think about where guitar playing is going today ... : it's going everywhere at the same time.
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#23. It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.
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#24. Solos I kind of [couldn't] care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care *most* about, but it's really the melody playing that is the cornerstone of what I'm working on.
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#25. It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.
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#26. I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.
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#27. Basic anatomy. That has got to be the ongoing frustration: Why can't my fingers do what I want them to do? Not being able to play what I hear in my head - that is the ultimate source of frustration.
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#28. Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something
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