John Petrucci Quotes

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

I'm learning on the guitar all the time.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.

In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.

Of course, I'm a guitar player, so I'm thinking as a guitarist. I have to work within my physical limitations as to what my hands will do, and also the patterns I'm familiar with, and the places that my fingers are used to going.

I can't play guitar well at all, so I had to learn that.

It's so satisfying as a guitar player to play stuff that's related to the blues.

As a guitar player, playing instrumental music is a blast.

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

You never learn everything on that guitar neck.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

I started to play the guitar for a couple of years, which was fun. I still bring it out once in a while, could bust out a couple of songs, but I'm not very good at it.

I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.

I started playing guitar when I was 14 and eventually gained the confidence to start singing a little bit.

I started playing guitar by the time I was 9.

It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I'm always trying to learn something new or trying to be a real guitar player.

I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

I just started exploring the guitar and seeing where it would take me.

I started playing guitar when I was 14.

I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.