More from Joe Satriani

  1. I can embarrass myself very easily on guitar. It's funny because people say to me I can play anything; I'm God on the guitar. But I could m…
  2. 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 th…
  3. When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.
  4. 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…
  5. 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 rhyth…
  6. Mozart was a freaky kind of shredder.
  7. 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 He…
  8. 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 t…

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