John Petrucci Quotes

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• When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the time in. Hear your mistakes. Yeah, it sucks, it's humbling, it makes you want to throw the guitar out the window. But if you work on your mistakes, they'll eventually go away, and you'll become a strong player.

  John Petrucci

  Strong, Mistake, Player

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• Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

  John Petrucci

  Communication, Two, Order

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

  John Petrucci

  Years, Giving, Way

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.

  John Petrucci

  Alive, Stay Focused, Distracted

  Source: www.rockbook.hu

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• I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.

  John Petrucci

  Guitar, Community, Feelings

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.

  John Petrucci

  Feelings, Trying, Why We Are Here

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that it is coming together.

  John Petrucci

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• You try to play the song better than you had before.

  John Petrucci

  Song, Play, Trying

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.

  John Petrucci

  Dark, Soul, Sin

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• I'm from the school of putting a lot of hours of practice into playing. But at the same time you have to write original music - that's really important, because that's the things that's going to separate you from everybody else, that's going to give you your unique voice as a music that you create.

  John Petrucci

  Writing, School, Unique

  Source: www.wikimetal.com.br

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• I'm a hopeless tone chaser!I love it and get into the whole thing.

  John Petrucci

  Tone, Hopeless, Chasers

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment.

  John Petrucci

  Mind, Musician, Environment

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

  John Petrucci

  Memories, Sight, Reader

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.

  John Petrucci

  Space, Moments, That Moment

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the craft needs to do. It's basic practicing of the basic elements. I try to practice like a well rounded regiment of things where I can kind of do whatever I wanna do and I also have to practice the actual songs to keep that under my fingers as well.

  John Petrucci

  Song, Thinking, Player

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• A lot of people around the world were, like, very frustrated, you know "Why don't you just release the name? Why is it taking so long?" But the cool thing is that it brought people together, like you said, it brought our fans into the experience, it sort of exposed us, exposed the process, and I think it welcomed Mike Magini, because people saw what happened to get to that point.

  John Petrucci

  Thinking, Names, Long

  Source: www.wikimetal.com.br

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• Real thick strings - your hands start to get fatigued. As much as you practice, and as much experience as you have, and as long as you've been playing, there is a fatigue point during the show, as with anything that's physical. So I wanted to basically pace myself better.

  John Petrucci

  Real, Hands, Practice

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• If you bring somebody into the band you are going to be with them a lot whether it's in the studio, on the tour bus, or at dinner every night; you want somebody you enjoy being around. You don't want an annoying guy .

  John Petrucci

  Night, Guy, Band

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• The good thing about playing this style that we play, you know, the progressive element of it, is that we can add in different elements of different styles. And that creates a more interesting overall sound.

  John Petrucci

  Play, Interesting, Style

  Source: www.wikimetal.com.br

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• I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

  John Petrucci

  Taste In Music, Taste, Eclectic

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• The Majesty guitar symbolizes the very reason why I am so proud to be a Music Man artist. I had the idea for this guitar a couple of years ago but it is because of their innovative spirit and dedication to the art of guitar building that it is now a reality. I am so grateful that I am able to collaborate with the best guitar company on the planet and so incredibly proud that together we have created what is to me, the perfect musical instrument for guitar players. I really hope you get a chance to play one and am confident that you will feel the same!

  John Petrucci

  Art, Couple, Grateful

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• I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one.

  John Petrucci

  Guitar, Vintage, Yeah

  Source: www.rockbook.hu

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• You might pick up some influences from another type of music that you wouldn't normally think of, but, you know, maybe as a guitar player, it will come out in your improvisational style, maybe as a song writer it might come out in your note choices, or in your melodic choices, and it just helps to making your music that much more original and unique.

  John Petrucci

  Song, Unique, Player

  Source: www.wikimetal.com.br

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• I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.

  John Petrucci

  Rocks, World, Progressive

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• I almost rely on other people to say, "Hey, you ever hear of this band?" And I'll say, "Oh, I've never heard of that!" And I listened to them and thought, "What the hell?"

  John Petrucci

  People, Band, Hey

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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