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 always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's… — 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
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'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
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
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
![“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.” quote by Joe Satriani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/31f/joe-satriani-7527_care_solos-i-kind-of-couldn-t-care-less-about_337667.jpg)
