Joe Satriani Quotes

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

I want to make people feel something - that's really cool.

The most rewarding experience as a musician is to know that I moved people personally.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

Because of 'Wasn't Expecting That,' I've had a lot of people come up to me and say how I've written their lives or their grandparents' lives. It means the world to me that I helped in the tiniest way.

If people can come out of 'Bin Roye' feeling even just a little bit of what this character felt, and touched your heart, that's enough for me.

If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.

It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.

I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives. When I'm fortunate for that to happen, then of course I feel very, very good about it.

You got to have an emotional connect with the audience who watch you.

I've come to the realization that you can entertain people both through making them laugh and making them feel. You can be quiet, and they can feel, and you will have scored as well.

We love high-end art, but when you're looking at high-end art in music, a lot of the time, it's appreciated academically, but you can't feel it as much.

The theatrical experience is also a communal one. When people saw 'Fruitvale' in the theater, there was not a dry eye at the end of the movie, and you would look to your neighbor and have this shared moment together that had a real weight behind it.

My approach to selecting a film is very simple - it should touch my heart.

I discovered that my drag really does speak to people on an emotional level. I also discovered that people are sometimes put off by an intellectual approach to drag.

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

When you listen to a song, it should make you sit up and wonder, 'Hey, what is this!' or give you an inexplicable feeling of joy or relate beautifully to the music in you.

When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.

People like to be moved, that's why they're here listening to you instead of sitting at home with the Shipping Forecast.

That's why I fell in love with country music: it made me feel something.

For me, being 10 years old and seeing 'Jurassic Park' for the first time blew my mind. I want music to feel like that.

My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.