John Petrucci Quotes

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

We're falling into a place where melody is somewhat lacking in music. Everybody feels like, okay, too much melody or too much harmony, and it kind of goes over people's heads; they don't understand it.

Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.

There are so many ingredients that are contained in 'The Wall' that were not necessarily contained in other Pink Floyd records, particularly following on from 'Animals,' which was very spare and sparse. Production on it was much more massive, the complexity of the recording was much more intense.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

As long as it's good music, that's what's important.

A great song is a great song.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

No one has any respect for someone who can play a million notes per minute but can't put together a decent tune that someone can sing to or feel some sort of emotion from.

The common denominator is a love of music.

I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.

I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.

I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.

I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.

I know music is subjective.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.