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I'm ready to take the heat.
Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.
Business always requires personal relationships.
I can't play piano well enough without making mistakes.
I see something in her eyes, sends me to a better place.
When you hear something you don't like, don't ever play it again.
I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.
When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.
There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.
I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.
I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.
It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.
I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.
If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.
I was doing clubs when I was 16. I grew up in New York, so back then, you could do that.
When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.
Guitar players I find kind of boring - and that's not meant as a dig. I find myself boring.
Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly
When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.
Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.
My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.
I prefer a heart player; I prefer someone like a blues player, like Jeff Healey. Jeff Healey I think is tremendous.
I really dislike flavoured potato chips, and so I always insist on just potatoes and salt, y'know? But that's not weird.
Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally's band!
If you're always playing the correct notes, there's something wrong - you're not searching; you're not reaching for anything.
Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't you want to play guitar?
It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.
I think anyone who lays a long trail of creative work over the years can't help but look back and wonder, 'What was I thinking?'
I did tons of gigs where I didn't move around very much because I couldn't. There's a pole over here and wires and a monitor there.
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.
R.I.P. Steve Jobs. I bet you're busy right now revolutionizing and redesigning the afterlife for all of us to enjoy when our time comes
I personally am into the minstrel technique - if I hear someone playing a lute or playing a crumhorn, it just moves me. I don't know why.
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.
I've always had creative freedom. Instrumental rock wasn't really a genre, but the success of 'Surfing With the Alien' legitimized my approach.
I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise.
Rock music is a funny thing: You can actually take it too far sometimes, and then it's not rock music anymore - it's something else, but it's not rock.
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
When I went into this, I knew that public life was going to be a very weird, fantastic and cruel sort of situation to be in. I think I'm ready for any lumps to come.
You always have to reset your volume for the venue you are in. Sometimes the tubes can have you scratching your head because they react differently at different volumes.
As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with it sometimes; otherwise, you turn it into pop music or progressive rock or something else.
I always think of the craziest idea first and then work backwards, because you never know: that person that you think would never return your call might be sitting at home with nothing to do.
Solos I kind of [couldn't] care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care most about, but it's really the melody playing that is the cornerstone of what I'm working on.
Every year that I go out on tour, I think about all the craziest ideas that would be great to go out with, and I think, 'I should see if Jeff Beck wants to join my band for a month or something.'
My first gig was at Carle Place High School, which is in Nassau County, Long Island, New York. I was 14, and I was invited to play with this band, and I was so excited, but I was really petrified.
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.
Without so much as taking another step towards the field, I turned around, went back into the gym, and I told my coach, 'Jimi Hendrix just died, and I'm quitting the team to become a guitar player.'
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.
I put together the idea for G3 because I felt isolated. The success of being a 'guitar hero' kept me away from all my friends who were guitar players. I thought it would be a lot more fun to play with them.
For a little kid like me, growing up in Carle Place, you put on John Lee Hooker late at night, and it's a different reality. I try to feel that music from the inside out because I was really attracted to it.