When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time. Joe Satriani More Quotes by Joe Satriani More Quotes From Joe Satriani 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 teamfootballgiving 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. Joe Satriani ongoingfrustrationplay Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song. Joe Satriani writingsongideas 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. Joe Satriani neurosisinspiringfunny If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all. Joe Satriani exercisefunbook I'm ready to take the heat. Joe Satriani heatready 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. Joe Satriani carepeoplethinking 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 musicartistsex When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong. Joe Satriani singingover-yousong 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 Joe Satriani afterlifebusyjobs I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second. Joe Satriani songinspiringfunny When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes. Joe Satriani tapewantplay 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. Joe Satriani strugglewritingmean 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 guitarlongyears 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 goodmomentyouart 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. Joe Satriani meherotogethersuccess I loved that playing the guitar wasn't easy. It was pain, but it was my pain. And then it became joy. My joy. Joe Satriani lovedguitarpainjoy 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 meyounaturelove Business always requires personal relationships. Joe Satriani requirespersonalalwaysbusiness If you're always playing the correct notes, there's something wrong - you're not searching; you're not reaching for anything. Joe Satriani wrongsomethingyoualways
