Joe Satriani Quotes

To play music, you have to understand it. I didn't understand 'Topographic Oceans.' That's why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end - and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it.

I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf.

When you work at a microscopic level, you have to control every part of your body movement - your fingertips, your joints, the pulse in your fingers.

I would just like to learn to control my limbs.

One of the problems trying to play an instrument outside in the cold is your fingers give up on you and you can't wear gloves, even fingerless.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

Did you play? It sounded very good.

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.

If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.

We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.

No matter how much you sit there twiddling, going, 'We're all doomed', at the end of the day people will always want to hear you play Creep. Get over it.

I try all night to play a pretty note.

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.

I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page from left to right horizontally, as if they were loops of string lying on the paper, and someone had come along and blown them askew.

I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people.

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.

The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.

Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]....If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies, the lower half of the Pharaoh's body would be covered only by scotch tape.

I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'