Joe Satriani Quotes

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

Nothing I'm doing musically is revolutionary in any way, shape, or form.

I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.

People get to a certain age and success that they stop being curious. I'm still curious because I haven't really had that success. I've never done a record to catch whatever the latest sound is. It's my love of music, eclectic-ness, and the music that I heard my entire life that seeps in. That's what you're hearing.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

I'm always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.

What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.

I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n' roll.

Thomas Dolby is part mad scientist, part nature boy, and entirely moved by the power of music.

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.