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Joe Satriani Quotes

born 1956 United States

Joe "Satch" Satriani (born July 15, 1956) is an instrumental rock guitarist and teacher, and a recognized virtuoso rock guitarist.

United States
Guitarists
Musicians

Also known as: Satriani, Joe

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My first [guitar] lessons lasted two weeks and it was "Jingle Bells." It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix...

I'm ready to take the heat.

Mozart was a freaky kind of shredder.

I've always spent a lot of time on my records with what I think were unique rhythmic approaches … but no one ever writes about your rhythm playing

I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.

The Squares [his former band] never really fit in. We weren't rock enough. We weren't alternative enough. We weren't new wave enough and we weren't punk enough. Maybe we just weren't the right people for the band.

18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".

Interviewed in Joe Satriani: The Satch Tapes (1993)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joe Satriani (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.