Dream Theater Quotes

Dream Theater music, there's a lot of background and context to the songs, as far as the subject matter and the albums they come from.

Normally, when I write the setlist for a Dream Theater show, I'll change it up every night, and we can basically play whatever we want.

I've been asked to write a book several times; I've had several publishers come to me and offer me book deals. Especially right after I left Dream Theater and Avenged Sevenfold, there was a lot of drama going on in my life, so the book companies came at me thirsty for blood and gossip. And I turned down all the deals.

The C+ amps is vintage at this point, and it definitely has a certain sound to it. I wanted something that was going to keep Dream Theater in more of a current musical landscape, as far as being the producer and producing the type of album I wanted to hear.

My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.

Dream Theater was my baby. I formed it from the beginning, out of college, and I lived a lifetime with them.

Dream Theater has never been a band that hit at a particular fashionable point and said, 'OK, that's basically it.'

Any time I say anything about Dream Theater... Honestly, I'd rather not talk about it. Because no matter what I say, it will be twisted and... So I kind of have made myself promise that I won't talk about Dream Theater anymore.

Before Dream Theater took off I used to teach a lot, and one of the things my students often asked me was how to apply the chromatic scale to practical playing situations. You see, their other teachers would give them chromatic warm-up exercises without providing any explanation of how important and versatile this scale actually is.

I remember waking up Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, to my wife telling me to put on the TV because I wasn't going to be going into N.Y.C. as planned. Dream Theater was working in N.Y.C. at the time mixing our album 'Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence,' and I would've been driving in that afternoon for our session.

When Dream Theater first started, we were touring in a van and playing clubs.

I understand that Adrenaline Mob is not going to be every Dream Theater fan's cup of tea. I totally get that; I understand that. It's different world.

With the Neal Morse Band, we're doing progressive music with a harder edge; it's a little more in Dream Theater territory for me. Flying Colors is a little more poppy, it's more Radiohead, Muse, and Coldplay territory, so I approach that drumming in a different way.

My time and my legacy with Dream Theater will always be a part of me. It's something I'll always be proud of.

I love when people know me from things other than Dream Theater.

Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.

A Dream Theater without me was never in the plan; I never expected that.

I really do care what people think, and I revolved my whole career and all the twenty five years with Dream Theater... I ran that band and made decisions based on caring what the fans thought and wanted.

I spent my life's work doing what I did in Dream Theater for 25 years, so I'm proud of that.

I love the Dream Theater guys dearly and have a long history, friendship, and bond that runs incredibly deep with them - it's just that I think we are in serious need of a little break.

There's been a lot of crossing paths with the Yes camp over the years for me. The first one was when Dream Theater and Yes toured together in 2004, which was a lot of fun.

I kind of always made it a tradition, whenever Dream Theater played Toronto, to play a Rush cover.