John Petrucci Quotes

United States, Guitarist
July 12, 1967

John Peter Petrucci is an American guitarist, composer and producer. He is best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. He produced or co-produced (often with former member Mike Portnoy before he departed the band in 2010) all of Dream Theater's albums from Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999) to Distance Over Time (2019), and has been the sole producer of the band's albums released since A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011).

Also known as Composer, Producer

I'm a hopeless tone chaser!I love it and get into the whole thing.

John Petrucci
- Tone
- Get Into
- Chasers
Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

John Petrucci

Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.

John Petrucci
- Soul
- Sin
- Master
Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

John Petrucci
- Learn
- Give
- Profit
We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.

John Petrucci
- Space
- Audience
- Moment
Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.

John Petrucci
- Focus
- Playing
- Alive
I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

John Petrucci
- Good
- Memory
- Reader
Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that it is coming together.

John Petrucci

The only thing I had in my mind when I was 17 was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment.

John Petrucci
If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.

John Petrucci
- Time
- Trying
- Feeling