Joe Satriani Quotes

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Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.

Joe Satriani

Being Yourself, Play, Relax

Metal Edge, April 1994.

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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.

Joe Satriani

Play, Important, Technique

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

Joe Satriani

Grateful, Guitar, Play

BAM Magazine, April 06, 1990.

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There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

Joe Satriani

Giving, Lines, Fine Lines

Guitar Magazine, November 1996.

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I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.

Joe Satriani

Done, Wonderful, Wrong Things

Guitar World, May 2000.

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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.

Joe Satriani

Hero, Player, Guitar

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Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't you want to play guitar?

Joe Satriani

Fun, Guitar, Play

Musician magazine, November 1996.

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It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

Joe Satriani

Perfect, Needs, Music Is

"Guitar Player". November 1989.

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I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.

Joe Satriani

Guitar, Play, One Thing

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My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.

Joe Satriani

Inspiration, Ideas, Space

Guitar Magazine, March 1990.

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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.

Joe Satriani

Fun, Player, Guitar

"Shred on Arrival". Guitar World, November 1993.

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When you're a guitar teacher, you teach people for a few years, and you become comrades after a while. Because everybody eventually catches up to everybody else, and you want to help each other out - to see if you can make the dream a reality.

Joe Satriani

Dream, Teacher, Reality

Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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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.

Joe Satriani

Music, Player, Guitar

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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

Joe Satriani

Music, Song, Player

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Eee-nee-mee-nee-my-nee-moe

Joe Satriani

Vocal warmup, Guitar World, October 1990.

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When you hear something you don't like, don't ever play it again.

Joe Satriani

Play

"Joe Satriani: Riff By Riff". Book by Rich Maloof, 1994.

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When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.

Joe Satriani

Thinking, Guitar, Today

"Shred on Arrival". Guitar World, November 1993.

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I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.

Joe Satriani

Music, Men, Odds

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I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.

Joe Satriani

Pride, Hard Times, Incorrigible

Guitar World, May 2000.

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I see something in her eyes, sends me to a better place.

Joe Satriani

Eye, Her Eyes, Compliment

Song: I Believe, Album: Flying in a Blue Dream, 1989

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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".

Joe Satriani

Football, Team, Giving

"Joe Satriani: The Satch Tapes". Music, Video, 1993.

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When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.

Joe Satriani

Song, Over You, Singing

BAM Magazine, April 06, 1990.

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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.

Joe Satriani

Frustration, Play, Ongoing

"Joe Satriani : Riff By Riff". Book by Rich Maloof, 1994.

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Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly

Joe Satriani

Law, Names, Chance

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Each artist attracts his own different set of fans. And G3 over the years has created it's own audience as well... they know it's something unusual and special that they're not going to get anywhere else ... young and old, both sexes, all come out. They all look at each other like, Wow, what are those people over there ? ... They're surprised at their own diversity.

Joe Satriani

Music, Sex, Artist

"From the Archive: Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen Discuss the 2003 G3 Tour". "Guitar World" Interview, www.guitarworld.com. November 2003.

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