John Petrucci Quotes

When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

In a way, I pattern myself after all the bands I used to like as a kid. Every time they put out LPs, they had a whole new look and a new sound.

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

I started writing songs at 17.

When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I was 15 when I started making music properly.

I've always listened to a wide variety of music, and I know that shows through my songwriting evolution.

My father, Aparesh Lahiri, was a musician too, and at a very young age, I was geared up for a career in music.

Nothing goes full-circle with music.

I used to play in bands and my dad, he's a big Beatles fan, so I grew up on a lot of Beatles and you kind of find your own way in music.

There would be no Static-X if I didn't write all the songs.

I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored.

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.

Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don't know whether it was because I saw my dad doing it and then I got the idea; I don't know what came first... But I always had a hairbrush in the mirror singing. I was always with him backstage; I would go out and be pulled in for the last song.

People like Prince don't have to care about anything, but they care because they want music for the future to be great.