Joe Satriani Quotes
When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.
Quotes to Explore
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.
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Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.
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The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.
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It's usually drawing on personal experience. I don't think I could dig deep enough trying to get into somebody else's life. Like 'Far From Me' - I wrote it about this waitress that I was dating when I was fifteen or so, and she broke up with me.
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When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.
