Joey Santiago Quotes

Philippines, Guitarist
June 10, 1965

Joseph Alberto "Joey" Santiago (born June 10, 1965) is a Filipino-American guitarist and composer. Active since 1986, Santiago is best known as the lead guitarist for the American alternative rock band the Pixies. After the band's breakup in 1993, Santiago produced musical scores for film and television documentaries, and he formed The Martinis with his wife, Linda Mallari. He also contributed to albums by Charles Douglas and former Pixies band-mate Frank Black. Santiago resumed his role as the Pixies' lead guitarist when they reunited in 2004.

Also known as Composer

It does just boil down to music.

Joey Santiago Pixies
- Music
I screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets like the Edge has.

Joey Santiago Pixies
- Up
- Done
- Pretty

I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.

Joey Santiago Pixies
- Simple
I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.

Joey Santiago Pixies
- People
Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

Joey Santiago Pixies
- Grunge
Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

Joey Santiago Pixies
- Time
- Stupid
I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

Joey Santiago Pixies
It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.

Joey Santiago Pixies
- Marriage

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

Joey Santiago Pixies
- People
The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

Joey Santiago Pixies
- Up
- Believe
- Night
It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!

Joey Santiago Pixies
- Red
The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

Joey Santiago Pixies
- Song
I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.

Joey Santiago Pixies
- Great
- Reading
- Challenge
Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.

Joey Santiago Pixies
- Live
- Trying
- Mountain

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

Joey Santiago Pixies
- People
- Different
- Trying
It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

Joey Santiago Pixies
- Nice
I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

Joey Santiago Pixies
- Music
- Long
- Bored