When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't *you* want to play… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
For a little kid like me, growing up in Carle Place, you put on John Lee Hooker late at night, and it's… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally's band! — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Without so much as taking another step towards the field, I turned around, went back into the gym, and I told my… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I personally am into the minstrel technique - if I hear someone playing a lute or playing a crumhorn, it just moves… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Rock music is a funny thing: You can actually take it too far sometimes, and then it's not rock music anymore -… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different,… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure I was about the only kid in school who knew who Jimi Hendrix even was. Through my older siblings,… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Instead of just hammering away at a song, I'll approach it from a million other angles. Sometimes I'll leave all my equipment… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I think the main objective is to move people, make people think in their heart. I personally am not interested in appealing… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I walked into Relativity Records as a musician who could not be taken advantage of. That's why I wound up owning all… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
'Flying In A Blue Dream' was quite automatic. I was working on another song, and I took a break and picked up… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
The music industry the last 120 years has been insane. It's just continual chaos. So it's not unusual that something like the… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Hearing Jimi Hendrix as a little kid and falling in love with everything that he did on guitar rewired my basic nature.… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Here's something weird, though: I loved Jimi's music so much that I would never perform it for people. Throughout my teens and… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Most of the time, I write songs with the arrangements all at once, in my head. There's the producer side of me… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I just want to play like Jimi Hendrix. I love other forms of music and wish I could play classical piano, or… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I was a kid that grew up listening to The Beatles and The Stones and Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton and Jeff… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I worked at a vintage guitar store, and the owner had ties with a lot of Japanese manufacturers and U.S. manufacturers that… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I can embarrass myself very easily on guitar. It's funny because people say to me I can play anything; I'm God on… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
We don't test out the songs live, and we don't play them for weeks on end in the studio. We have, like,… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing, my relationship with Deep Purple. I already felt the pain and confusion of trying to replace Ritchie Blackmore,… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I was a guitar player in a band that had two keyboard players, sometimes two other guitarists, a bass player, and a drummer, four… — Joe Satriani Copy Share
Boy, if anyone wants to get visited from an alien, it's me. I'm dying, and I've been sending out that invitation to the universe… — Joe Satriani Copy Share
As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with it sometimes;… — Joe Satriani Copy Share
Rock music is a funny thing: You can actually take it too far sometimes, and then it's not rock music anymore - it's something… — Joe Satriani Copy Share
When we play an outdoor venue, you'll see whole families - boys, girls, men and women - from kids to grandparents who somehow heard… — Joe Satriani Copy Share
'Flying In A Blue Dream' was quite automatic. I was working on another song, and I took a break and picked up my acoustic… — Joe Satriani Copy Share
I worked at a vintage guitar store, and the owner had ties with a lot of Japanese manufacturers and U.S. manufacturers that were beginning… — Joe Satriani Copy Share
I did tons of gigs where I didn't move around very much because I couldn't. There's a pole over here and wires and a… — Joe Satriani Copy Share
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… — Joe Satriani Copy Share
I started many years ago using the Boss DS-1 and then graduated to the Satchurator and putting that right into that clean channel, and… — Joe Satriani Copy Share
I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of… — Joe Satriani Copy Share
... I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in… — Joe Satriani Copy Share
There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free. — Joe Satriani Copy Share
