So many things will happen, for better or worse, in your career, and it’s very easy for those things to bog you down or consume you. But when you get a chance to look back, you realize that those were not the things that were really important. John Petrucci Read Quote
Early on in my career, I was really into the volume pedal techniques that somebody like Steve Howe or Alex Lifeson would use. John Petrucci Read Quote
I wanted to go to Berklee College of Music because that’s where Steve Vai went – I was total tunnel vision. John Petrucci Read Quote
I used to have these reoccurring dreams that I played guitar, which I thought was so bizarre. It all sort of fit together at some point, and I said ‘I want to play guitar.’ John Petrucci Read Quote
I’m grateful that as part of the Ernie Ball family, I’m able to connect with my fans in such a meaningful way and hopefully inspire guitar players to up their game! John Petrucci Read Quote
Before Dream Theater took off I used to teach a lot, and one of the things my students often asked me was how to apply the chromatic scale to practical playing situations. You see, their other teachers would give them chromatic warm-up exercises without providing any explanation of how important and versatile this scale actually is. John Petrucci Read Quote
The best way to learn sweep picking is to first isolate the right- and left-hand techniques, master them separately and then coordinate them. John Petrucci Read Quote
We’ve always had a very strong focus on the instrumentation, and our approach to our individual instruments. John Petrucci Read Quote
Just because something is melodic or catchy doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have depth and substance and progressive sensibilities. John Petrucci Read Quote
Dream Theater music, there’s a lot of background and context to the songs, as far as the subject matter and the albums they come from. John Petrucci Read Quote
