Joe Satriani: Guitar

“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 make a big list of everything I can't play... I'm grateful that people don't notice that.”

“When you think about where guitar playing is going today…: it's going everywhere at the same time.”

“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?"”

“I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.”

“When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is pushing the boundaries, I just say, "let's step back for a minute and admit something: nothing has happened for the last 100 years." And it's okay. It's not a bad thing … We're all working with "tools" that have been in existence for the last 100 years and there hadn't been a new "tool" for a long long time.”

“His vocal warmup, as quoted in Guitar World (October 1990).”

“If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book … that's no fun at all.”

“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…”

“…Is the greatest guitar player in the world.”