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When you hear something you don't like, don't ever play it again.
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When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.
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There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.
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I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.
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I've always done "the wrong thing" and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.
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It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.
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I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.
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If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book … that's no fun at all.
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When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.
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Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly
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When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.
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Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.
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My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.
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Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't *you* want to play guitar?
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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...
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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
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I think it's quite painfully obvious when someone's practicing through an amp, as opposed to someone who's really laying down some stuff that just happens to be fast.
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Solos I kind of [couldn't] care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care most about, but it's really the melody playing that is the cornerstone of what I'm working on.
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Basic anatomy. That has got to be the ongoing frustration: Why can't my fingers do what I want them to do? Not being able to play what I hear in my head — that is the ultimate source of frustration.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
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July 15, 1956
(age 67)
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