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Joe Satriani Inspirational Quotes (25)

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When you hear something you don't like, don't ever play it again.
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I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.
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I'm ready to take the heat.
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I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.
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Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't you want to play guitar?
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When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.
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Eee-nee-mee-nee-my-nee-moe
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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.
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I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.
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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.
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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.
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There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.
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If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.
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My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.
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Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.
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Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.
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It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.
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When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.
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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
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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.
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