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
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
Guitar players I find kind of boring - and that's not meant as a dig. I find myself boring. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I loved that playing the guitar wasn't easy. It was pain, but it was my pain. And then it became joy. 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 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
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 assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I put together the idea for G3 because I felt isolated. The success of being a 'guitar hero' kept me away from… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I love classical music, but I hated classical guitar. But I like flamenco, because there was something else there going on. It… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Anytime you go to see a band with a guitar player, there's always a fear of guitar overkill! That's a funny question.… — 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
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 was a guitar player in a band that had two keyboard players, sometimes two other guitarists, a bass player, and a… — 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
When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all. — 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
When you're a guitar teacher, you teach people for a few years, and you become comrades after a while. Because everybody eventually… — 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
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'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
'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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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