Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has never seen us before and hearing it for the first time. We are aware of that. John Petrucci More Quotes by John Petrucci More Quotes From John Petrucci I somehow always found the right people on my own to jam with as well as playing with all my buddies. I didn't get to a point where I was auditioning for any bands. John Petrucci bandjampeople Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat. John Petrucci togetherdreamfeelings We have a storage close by where I live, that's very organised. My guitar tech, Matty organised it all, labeled everything. John Petrucci organisedstorageguitar When we make those guitars we make tons of prototypes, I have all those. And once a guitar has come out there's all different versions and colours and woods and I have all those. There's hundreds of them. John Petrucci woodsguitardifferent There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a flea market. They weren't the greatest guitar but they would be cool to still have them. Other than that, not as a professional. John Petrucci fleasguitarwould-be I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am. John Petrucci playermenthinking Jordan Ruddes does [have a home studio], but it's all self-contained. I'll be the only guy with a fully built recording studio. So they'll have to come to me. John Petrucci guyselfhome I think it's a good way to sort of build your career and even when I was a young kid, I did the same thing, I looked at these guitar players, like ...I was a big fan of Steve Vai, and Al DiMeola, and said "What do those guys do?" and I found out that they went to Berkelee College of music, so I was like "Well, I'm going to go to Berkelee College of Music", and you try to, like, learn from those things, so... It's important. John Petrucci playercollegekids The good thing about playing this style that we play, you know, the progressive element of it, is that we can add in different elements of different styles. And that creates a more interesting overall sound. John Petrucci styleplayinteresting You might pick up some influences from another type of music that you wouldn't normally think of, but, you know, maybe as a guitar player, it will come out in your improvisational style, maybe as a song writer it might come out in your note choices, or in your melodic choices, and it just helps to making your music that much more original and unique. John Petrucci uniqueplayersong Going to the Grammys, being nominated for a Grammy, that was a really big deal for me, for us as a band. John Petrucci dealsbandbigs We've seen progressive rock all over the world, in South America, Europe, Asia, across the US and North America and Australia. There's huge audiences for this stuff. For me it's always been there and it's just a matter of time before the people have more of the means to spread the word. John Petrucci australiameanamerica My main objective with a home studio - I could get into doing full band demos - but my first objective is to cut things like guitar tracks and solos at home. John Petrucci guitarcuttinghome If I'm not in an environment where I can record, it's great to be able to write something down, to be able to know how to do that, to be able to write notation. You grab a piece of paper and there it is. It's the cheapest recording equipment you can buy: a piece of manuscript paper and a pencil! John Petrucci recordspieceswriting Jordan [Ruddes], he learned that way, and that's what he knows how to do. That's how he kind of approaches all music, whether it's to learn a cover song that we're going to play, or to review Dream Theater music - he always uses charts. That's what he knows. I really rely a lot more on memory. John Petrucci dreamsongmemories Since I'm in a band, and I'm not usually in situations where I need to read, it doesn't come up as often, and I don't rely on it as much. John Petrucci come-upbandneeds To be in Boston, which is a great city and which is full of many colleges and young kids, and to be around that many people that were at the same point in their lives, who played guitar or whatever instrument - it was just perfect. It was a great environment. John Petrucci guitarcollegekids 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 environmentmusicianmind I went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar. John Petrucci guitarplayschool Instead of buying a guitar for $2,000 or $2,500 - I'm not sure how much these are going for - but it's maybe $300 or something like that. It's more for beginners and stuff like that. Obviously it's not hitting the pros. And you can't get the Piezo pickup and the color-changing paint and the inlays and all the fancy things that my signature guitars offer, but you can get the general feel of the guitar - and the body style. It's cool. John Petrucci fancy-thingsguitarcolor
