Working with Michael Jackson was awesome. He was an incredible entertainer, dancer, singer, magician, everything, and he was really sweet, too. Orianthi Read Quote
It was pretty insane to play the Grammy Awards and looking out in the audience and seeing rock royalty – Bono and Paul McCartney. It was crazy. Orianthi Read Quote
My dad used to listen to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, and my mom liked Michael Bolton and Roy Orbison. She was pretty big into country music, too. So there was a wealth of music being played in the house, and I kind of took it all in. Orianthi Read Quote
When I was around 11, my dad took me to see Santana live, and then I got ‘Sacred Fire,’ and everything changed for me. Orianthi Read Quote
Santana is the reason I play guitar – I studied his style so much, I actually wore out the video tapes. Orianthi Read Quote
You want a solo to be structured, a song within a song, but you want it to sound like it’s the first time you’re playing it, too. Orianthi Read Quote
In 2007, when I first moved to Los Angeles, I got a call from Prince, and he had been watching my YouTube videos. It was crazy, because I thought it was my friend calling and pretending to be Prince. Orianthi Read Quote
I was contacted through MySpace to come and jam out for Michael Jackson. I thought it was a joke. I forwarded it to my manager, and it actually was legitimate, so I went the next day. Orianthi Read Quote
Eric Clapton was such a great player. He sounds like he’s Freddie King or someone like that. He plays the roots of blues and Delta blues. He really affected me with the way that he plays, because he never really plays that many notes. Orianthi Read Quote
