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
As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with… — 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
When we play an outdoor venue, you'll see whole families - boys, girls, men and women - from kids to grandparents who… — 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… — 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
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
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 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
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
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
When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a fan of dance music. I guess we really call it 'dance' music because music seems to have become very… — 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
I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
When I started to write music that was completely divorced from any sort of idea of commercial success, the real me started… — 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
... each artist attracts his own different set of fans. And G3 over the years has created it's own audience as well...… — 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
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
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
When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Success came to me in my late 20s. I started touring when I was a teenager, so I had already seen the… — 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'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