John Petrucci famous quotes

05-13-2025

If you can't play as good or as fast as me, just give up, sell your guitar on eBay and kill yourself.
-- John Petrucci

#Giving Up #Guitar #Ebay
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
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 #Player #Thinking
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
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
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
Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.
-- John Petrucci

#Alive #Stay Focused #Distracted
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
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
You try to play the song better than you had before.
-- John Petrucci

#Song #Play #Trying
Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.
-- John Petrucci

#Dark #Soul #Sin
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
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
I'm a hopeless tone chaser!I love it and get into the whole thing.
-- John Petrucci

#Tone #Hopeless #Chasers
I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.
-- John Petrucci

#Memories #Sight #Reader
We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.
-- John Petrucci

#Space #Moments #That Moment
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
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
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
I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.
-- John Petrucci

#Taste In Music #Taste #Eclectic
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
I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.
-- John Petrucci

#Rocks #World #Progressive
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
It's a balance between getting the right string gauge that's thick enough where it sound good, and not rubber bands - but not too thick where your hands start to get real tired.
-- John Petrucci

#Real #Tired #Hands

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