Joe Satriani Quotes

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. It's primarily Mick Jagger, but they're all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. It's just deeply, deeply attractive.

I like a lot of different kinds of music. I like strong projects, big music.

I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part - I don't really know what they're talking about.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.

What I learned then was there is a certain power in a three piece band. The more people you put on that stage, the more diluted it becomes.

I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.

Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll.

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.

To me, music is music, and it's not limited by the medium; it just encompasses everything.