Quotes by Joe Satriani - Page 2

Success came to me in my late 20s. I started touring when I was a teenager, so I had already seen the good, the bad, and the ugly side of the music business. Plus, setting up my own record company taught me a lot.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Music Business
Plus
Setting
Teenager
Touring
Ugly
Success Business Good
Record Company
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I was blessed to have my son, ZZ, doing it; he managed to pull nothing but the truth out of me. Put all that aside, and you think how strange it is to watch a movie about some small, but important, part of your life.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Life Truth Your
Life Truth Me
Aside
Important Part
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I'm definitely a fan of dance music. I guess we really call it 'dance' music because music seems to have become very functional. For years, people were trying to be everything. Now, musicians are becoming very specific.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Dance Music
Functional
Music People Dance
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I'm pretty sure I was about the only kid in school who knew who Jimi Hendrix even was. Through my older siblings, I was getting turned on to all the great music that was happening at the time, and I really loved Hendrix.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Great Music
Hendrix
Sibling
Time Music Great
Happening
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Hearing Jimi Hendrix as a little kid and falling in love with everything that he did on guitar rewired my basic nature. To me, that was a normal thing that you should do: you should strive to be as innovative as Hendrix.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Falling In Love
Hearing
Hendrix
Innovative
Little Kid
Strive
Falling
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Distortion pedals are just fantastic for not only rehearsing quietly but also for all those moments when you are going to play in highly compressed environments like radio, television, or recording against compressed loops.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Distortion
Loops
Rehearsing
Environments
Highly
Quietly
Recording
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I can embarrass myself very easily on guitar. It's funny because people say to me I can play anything; I'm God on the guitar. But I could make a big list of everything I can't play... I'm grateful that people don't notice that.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Grateful
Guitar
Play
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I think you've gotta be smart enough to be competent, but you've gotta be crazy enough to go out there and just let it all happen. I mean, you can rehearse and still not be musical, be tight and not be musical; we all hated that.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Competent
Rehearse
Tight
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18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Football
Giving
Team
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I think the main objective is to move people, make people think in their heart. I personally am not interested in appealing to other musicians. To me, it's more inspiring to move someone who doesn't know anything about music but has a feel.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Inspiring
Not Interested
Appealing
Music Heart Me
Objective
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When you're a guitar teacher, you teach people for a few years, and you become comrades after a while. Because everybody eventually catches up to everybody else, and you want to help each other out - to see if you can make the dream a reality.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Death
Dream
Teacher
Guitar
Reality
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You couldn't make a Steve Vai. That's a one-in-a-billion type of personality that comes out together with an incredible talent facility. You grow it; you help them grow it. Hopefully, it matures, and they don't hit any roadblocks along the way.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Facility
Roadblocks
Steve
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We don't test out the songs live, and we don't play them for weeks on end in the studio. We have, like, one day to get two songs down. So what happens is, everybody's attention and energy gets ratcheted up. But it's good because it helps us focus.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Attention
Focus
One Day
Weeks
Helps
Studio
Test
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Boy, if anyone wants to get visited from an alien, it's me. I'm dying, and I've been sending out that invitation to the universe ever since I was a kid. I don't believe in little green men. That's collective neurosis of society. So I don't believe that.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Dying
Green
Neurosis
Universe
Alien
Boy
Collective
Invitation
Sending
Visited
Wants
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I walked into Relativity Records as a musician who could not be taken advantage of. That's why I wound up owning all my own publishing and making a deal that was quite advantageous for a new solo artist. But I really didn't think of myself as an entrepreneur.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Advantage
Entrepreneur
Musician
Publishing
Records
Relativity
Solo
Owning
Solo Artist
Wound
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Instead of just hammering away at a song, I'll approach it from a million other angles. Sometimes I'll leave all my equipment set up and just turn on the TV for five minutes; sometimes I've gotta get out of the house. I don't think it every really leaves my head.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Equipment
Angles
Hammering
Leaves
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Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Music
Guitar
People
Player
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I just want to play like Jimi Hendrix. I love other forms of music and wish I could play classical piano, or saxophone like John Coltrane, but that will never happen. Because my nature is to play electric guitar really well and to emulate my heroes from the late 1960s.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Coltrane
Electric
Electric Guitar
Emulate
Hendrix
Late
Saxophone
Love Nature Music
Heroes
Forms
Classical
John
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All of the good things that surround art - you have to embrace the idea that it could be a complete disaster. I think that's what gives it its artistic sparkle is that it really could crash and burn at any moment because you're going out on a limb and being very personal.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Crash
Disaster
Embrace
Good Things
Sparkle
Surround
Art Good Moment
Burn
Complete
Limb
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I love classical music, but I hated classical guitar. But I like flamenco, because there was something else there going on. It wasn't just the notes being thrown at you. And there were certain kinds of jazz that I really liked and other kinds that just went right over my head.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Classical Guitar
Notes
Thrown
Love Music Guitar
Classical
Something Else
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When I started to write music that was completely divorced from any sort of idea of commercial success, the real me started to come out. Normally, a musician in a session for a pop record would have to discard a lot of ideas because they won't fit, because they're not commercial.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Divorced
Session
Success Music Me
Commercial Success
Discard
Normally
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It's a funny thing, my relationship with Deep Purple. I already felt the pain and confusion of trying to replace Ritchie Blackmore, which is a difficult thing to have in your head - since the time when you were a kid, that guitar sound and approach is what you associate with Deep Purple.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Confusion
Deep Purple
Purple
Associate
Difficult Thing
Funny Thing
Replace
Ritchie
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You have to have a sound that inspires you to play because, if not, you won't be able to make the sound you have work. You won't be able to make magic with it if you're not happy with it, so it's important that you at least please yourself to the level where you can just relax and be an artist.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Please
Relax
Inspires
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Most of the time, I write songs with the arrangements all at once, in my head. There's the producer side of me that's always thinking sounds, like, 'Wouldn't this be a great sound if it existed to put in front of a song, to open it up, and then, when it did its thing, something else would happen?
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Arrangements
Time Great Thinking
Existed
Producer
Something Else
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What I noticed, in the short time I've been in Chickenfoot, we wound up doing a tour and a live DVD with basically that scoop sound. I was using OD2 for that entire tour. When we went out on this new tour and made the new record, I used the amp in an entirely different way. It was already modified.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Short Time
Time Live New
Amp
Time New Way
Entirely
Modified
Noticed
Scoop
Wound
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It's important for me not to peak before I hit the stage. In other words, I save all of my creative and physical energy for when I walk on stage. If I can get 45 minutes of just easy going, playing rhythm, songs, stuff like that, then that's what I do to make sure that I'm all stretched out and ready.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Rhythm
In Other Words
Peak
Stretched
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I started many years ago using the Boss DS-1 and then graduated to the Satchurator and putting that right into that clean channel, and that sounds great. I've done many tours with that setup. Then we took the next two channels that were part of the JVM sound in channel 1 and made them a little more subtle.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Boss
Subtle
Tours
Channel
Channels
Graduated
Setup
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When we play an outdoor venue, you'll see whole families - boys, girls, men and women - from kids to grandparents who somehow heard the music... Think about how hard it is for artists who can never get a gig at an all-ages gig. Who goes to hear music in bars? People who can get into bars; people who drink.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Bars
Men And Women
Men Women Music
Women Men Music
Gig
Hear Music
Outdoor
Venue
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Anytime you go to see a band with a guitar player, there's always a fear of guitar overkill! That's a funny question. If you went to a Taylor Swift concert or a Jay-Z show, people would think, 'Oh, my God, I hope I don't get guitar overkill.' People come to our show for guitar, and there can never be enough.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Guitar Player
Anytime
Concert
Jay-Z
Oh My God
Show People
Swift
Taylor
Taylor Swift
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I was a kid that grew up listening to The Beatles and The Stones and Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, and I wanted all of that in there. But at the same time, a large part of my playing is Tony Iommi and Billy Gibbons. I'm just a sum total of all of the guitar players that I think were really cool.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Jimmy
Stones
Beck
Billy
Clapton
Total
Eric Clapton
Guitar Players
Jeff
Jeff Beck
Large
Large Part
Page
Same Time
Sum
Sum Total
Tony
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'Flying In A Blue Dream' was quite automatic. I was working on another song, and I took a break and picked up my acoustic guitar, tuned it strangely, and instantly wrote the tune. It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. Usually, when things come easy, it means it's good.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Acoustic Guitar
Blue
Break
Flying
Struggle
Acoustic
Automatic
Instantly
Minute
Picked
Piece
Strangely
Tune
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Here's something weird, though: I loved Jimi's music so much that I would never perform it for people. Throughout my teens and playing in various bands, I refused to play Hendrix songs. I know that sounds strange, but Jimi's music was so special to me that it was like works of art that shouldn't be touched or altered.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Altered
Hendrix
Strange
Teens
Touched
Art Music Me
Weird
Perform
Refused
Throughout
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I worked at a vintage guitar store, and the owner had ties with a lot of Japanese manufacturers and U.S. manufacturers that were beginning to pop up. So I was ordering parts and screwing them together and contacting local luthiers to finish and do frets and things, and I had put together two guitars, a red one and a black one.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Ties
Vintage
Guitars
Fret
Owner
Japanese
Manufacturers
Ordering
Screwing
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I was a guitar player in a band that had two keyboard players, sometimes two other guitarists, a bass player, and a drummer, four or five singers, and percussion. We did a two-and-a-half hour show where the music spanned from the early Sixties to the present. Whereas the David Lee Roth thing was like, Now. Very big and intense.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Band
Bass
Drummer
Guitar
Guitar Player
Intense
Percussion
Player
Singers
David
Bass Player
Hour
Lee
Present
Roth
Sixties
Whereas
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The music industry the last 120 years has been insane. It's just continual chaos. So it's not unusual that something like the Internet comes around, but as one door closes another one opens, and that certainly is the case where now, artists can have a lot of control over how they display to the world, all at once, their new record.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Chaos
Display
Insane
Music Industry
Unusual
Case
Closes
Door
Opens
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Each artist attracts his own different set of fans. And G3 over the years has created it's own audience as well... they know it's something unusual and special that they're not going to get anywhere else ... young and old, both sexes, all come out. They all look at each other like, Wow, what are those people over there ? ... They're surprised at their own diversity.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Music
Artist
Sex
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When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is pushing the boundaries, I just say, "let's step back for a minute and admit something: nothing has happened for the last 100 years." And it's okay. It's not a bad thing ... We're all working with "tools" that have been in existence for the last 100 years and there hadn't been a new "tool" for a long long time.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Guitar
Long
Years
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I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Music
Men
Odds
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