Joe Satriani Quotes

To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way.

The Squirrel Barkers always have a special place in my heart.

I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.

It's not the way Zane looks, David," she said, her voice trembling with anger. "It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a lot of risks together. It could just as easily be me lying there, and he would stay with me if it was." "It's just programming!" "No. It's because I love him.

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

[Songs] have to be a part of you. They have to be in your DNA. That's how I approached it.

You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.

I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story.

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons and wheels and little forgotten treasures, fans upon whose feathers love has scattered its blossoms, glasses, knives and scissors -- all bear the trace of someone's fingers on their handle or surface, the trace of a distant hand lost in the depths of forgetfulness.

Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about. Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Givers, and Foo Fighters are just some of my favorites. I respect bands that give me something of themselves that I can feel. ("Posing" bands turn me off generally speaking.) It all has to do with a feeling I have about them. That is what music is to me, a feeling. It's similar with people too.

My wife is possessive and I like that

I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon

There are so many ways to respond to music besides feeling like someone's communicating with you. It gives me a charge.

That movie was my girlfriend. That was my girl." I knew there was going to be initial anger. As a matter of fact, when I was deciding to do Footloose that was one of the first things that I had to realize. First of all, I had to figure out a human connection to it but then I also had to reconcile that I was going to get beat up a little bit on this a little bit.

I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.

Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human

You’re going to tell me that last night shouldn’t have happened.” No. I’m glad it happened. For too long, I’ve been telling myself that I could spend all this time with yo and flirt with you and not have it mean anything. It does mean something. You mean something to me. But I’m not in love with you.

I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.