John Petrucci Quotes About Metals

Quotes about: Metals

• The style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a lot of commercial exposure.

  John Petrucci

  Style, Battle, Progressive

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

• I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.

  John Petrucci

  Rocks, World, Progressive

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

• We used to rehearse and that's where the roots of Dream Theater formed. Y'know, we used to play cover songs and jam to [Iron] Maiden and stuff but we were writing songs and it was this metal, loud style and we'd constantly get knocks on our door, because the rehearsal rooms were right next door to each other, and these jazz guys would be like, "Can you guys turn it down a little?"

  John Petrucci

  Dream, Song, Writing

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

• First and foremost, with everybody we wanted to see if they can pull off the songs, play them correctly, and that they it felt right musically. That's something Mike [Mangini] did, it felt like the band. He really gets the style and delivers in a powerful metal way.

  John Petrucci

  Song, Powerful, Play

  Source: myglobalmind.com

• I started playing guitar when I was 12, and I started getting into more metal, like Maiden and Metallica... Of course, as I kind of got better and better in the guitar, I was listening to more guitar players, so then I got into, I guess, more of the prog side.

  John Petrucci

  Player, Guitar, Listening

  Source: www.wikimetal.com.br

• I'm a member of the Recording Academy and I see the way it works and even with the whole voting process it's broken down into specific categories. There are Pop categories and Dance and Rock and Metal and Film and Score and everything else. Basically when you are voting you are urged not to vote in the category that you don't know anything about.

  John Petrucci

  Rocks, Broken, Voting

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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