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John Petrucci, born on July 12, 1967, is a renowned guitarist known for his exceptional skills and unique musical style. He is a core member of the band Dream Theater, which is famous for its complex musical structures and exquisite playing techniques.

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“Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.”

Soul Dark Sin Masters My Soul

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“Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back.”

Courses Names Black Huge Coming Back Deserving Sabbath Black Sabbath

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“I'm a member of the Recording Academy and I see the way it works and even with the whole voting process it's broken down into specific categories. There are Pop categories and Dance and Rock and Metal and Film and Score and everything else. Basically when you are voting you are urged not to vote in the category that you don't know anything about.”

Knows Way Whole Film Process Rocks Broken Members Vote Pops Score Voting Categories Metals Academy Broken Down

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“The style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a lot of commercial exposure.”

Style Battle Progressive Metals Exposure

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

World Said Audience Rocks Huge Progressive Metals

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“We've seen progressive rock all over the world, in South America, Europe, Asia, across the US and North America and Australia. There's huge audiences for this stuff. For me it's always been there and it's just a matter of time before the people have more of the means to spread the word.”

People World Mean Matter America Stuff Audience Rocks Huge Europe South Spread Australia Progressive Asia North America South America Matter Of Time

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“It's probably no coincidence with the internet and social media and the word being able to spread beyond the radio, where fans can go and talk and congregate and trade stories and a band could communicate news very quickly and in a worldwide basis. I'm sure that's helped in bringing in this case us to more of the forefront of peoples attention.”

Stories Able Social Attention Cases Fans Media Internet Band News Bases Trade Radio Communicate Social Media Spread Coincidence

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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.”

Feels Firsts Feelings Remember Felt Community First Time Guitar Outcast

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“We used to rehearse and that's where the roots of Dream Theater formed. Y'know, we used to play cover songs and jam to [Iron] Maiden and stuff but we were writing songs and it was this metal, loud style and we'd constantly get knocks on our door, because the rehearsal rooms were right next door to each other, and these jazz guys would be like, "Can you guys turn it down a little?"”

“I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.”

Taste Eclectic Taste In Music

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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?"”

People Hell Heard Band Hey Rely Hey You

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“There's different levels of where we do well throughout Europe. Fortunately, for us, it's pretty great all throughout it.”

Wells Different Levels Europe Different Levels

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“When we first started and started hitting new places for the first time, you kinda didn't know, because we were new. Sometimes we played tiny little clubs and sometimes we'd play a larger place.”

Knows Firsts Littles Sometimes Play First Time Clubs Tiny Hitting New Places

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“Now that we're established and we have a history we know that we can expect people to show up and to have a good time.”

People Knows Shows Good Times Having A Good Time

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“I'm realizing this more and more that it's one thing to get involved with your own political beliefs and stand behind you believe in personally.”

Believe Political Belief Realizing Behinds One Thing Involved Get Involved Behind You Political Beliefs

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“As far as bands doing that in a way where they think they're going to fight the government, the only people they're really hurting is the fans.”

People Thinking Way Government Fighting Hurt Fans Band

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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.”

People Way Needs Looks Two Play Order Streets Communication Music Is Connections Two Ways Two Way Street

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“Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has never seen us before and hearing it for the first time. We are aware of that.”

Firsts Might Night Song Audience Alive First Time Hearing Every Night New Experiences

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

Trying Play Song Better Than You

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“Songs like "Spirit Carries On" really gets the audience moved and on the same page. It's challenging and all so much fun to play.”

Play Spirit Song Fun Challenges Audience Pages Moved Carrie

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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.”

Ifs Trying Feelings Great Times Detached Why We Are Here

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“You're about to walk on stage and play together for the next few hours so you want to feel connected and make sure that everyone is in the same head space; a good head space.”

Want Feels Play Together Next Hours Space Walks Stage Connected

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“Many times we talk about the people that have come to enjoy the show. They went through a lot to get here, whatever they needed to work out in their lives; they got babysitters, they traveled, and purchased the tickets. So it's up to us to deliver the goods!”

People Shows Enjoy Needed Work Out Goods Tickets Traveled Babysitter

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

Moments Space Audience That Moment

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“We auditioned a lot of great drummers; every one of them was world class. We had a lot of fun playing with each of them and had some great jams. With Mike [Mangini] it was just something really special about what was going on.”

World Fun Class Special Mike Jam Drummer World Class

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“First and foremost, with everybody we wanted to see if they can pull off the songs, play them correctly, and that they it felt right musically. That's something Mike [Mangini] did, it felt like the band. He really gets the style and delivers in a powerful metal way.”

Ifs Way Firsts Play Wanted Song Felt Powerful Style Band Metals Mike

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“Personality wise, we are all kindred spirits. I've said this before; if we [with Mike Mangini ] ever went to high school together we would have been friends. He is just one of us! We felt that immediate connect.”

Ifs Has Beens Said School Together Spirit Felt Wise Personality High School All Kinds Just One Mike Kindred Kindred Spirit

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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 .”

Ifs Want Night Guy Enjoy Band Studios Dinner Bus Annoying Every Night

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“It's hard to answer that from my own perspective because when I'm playing I know where it is coming from and the sources.”

Knows Hard My Own Answers Source Perspective

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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.”

Thinking Together Player Guitar Inward Feedback Make You Think Guitar Player Coming Together Positive Feedback

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

Whole Tone Hopeless Chasers

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“I would say the more the better when it is comes to development and marketing. It's actually fun. For some it can be a frustrating thing.”

Fun Development Marketing Frustrating Frustrating Things

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“I've been fortunate to work with companies that I endorse because I love their gear. Whether Music Man, Dunlop, or DiMarizo to me these companies have supported me in such a way that's invaluable.”

Men Way Company Fortunate Gears Invaluable Music Man

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“I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am.”

Thinking Men Needs Millions Player Lucky Percent Guitar Tailored Music Man

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“With all tools at my disposal, I'm 100% into chasing tone and checking out new equipment and "geeking" out during sound check by taking too much time.”

Sound Too Much Tools Checks Tone Equipment Chasing Checking Out

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“There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a flea market. They weren't the greatest guitar but they would be cool to still have them. Other than that, not as a professional.”

Made Stills Would Be Young Instruments Trade Guitar Initials Being Cool Fleas Trade Offs Flea Markets

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“I didn't try out for bands when I was younger. I got into guitars intensely a couple of years into playing so much by the time I was graduating high school I was accepted into Berklee College of Music.”

Trying Years School College Couple Band High School Guitar Accepted Graduates Graduating High School

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“I somehow always found the right people on my own to jam with as well as playing with all my buddies. I didn't get to a point where I was auditioning for any bands.”

People Wells Found My Own Band Buddy Jam

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“Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.”

Feelings Dream Together Born Taste Theater Defeat Dream Theater

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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.”

Yeah Instruments Guitar Collectors Vintage

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“Almost 15 with music, we have so many guitars that we developed over the years. The latest one is 'The Majesty' guitar, which I'm really proud of.”

Years Proud Guitar Majesty

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“When we make those guitars we make tons of prototypes, I have all those. And once a guitar has come out there's all different versions and colours and woods and I have all those. There's hundreds of them.”

Different Guitar Woods Versions Colour Prototype

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“We have a storage close by where I live, that's very organised. My guitar tech, Matty organised it all, labeled everything.”

Guitar Storage Organised

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“I think I'm a father, but a father of three kids! :)”

Thinking Kids Three Father

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“When we came out, the kind of music that was popular was Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, all that stuff. That was when we released our second album, 'Images And Words', and it was something people werent used to hearing maybe, and it sort of rose above all that somehow, being progressive, or whatever.”

People Kind Used Stuff Rose Albums Hearing Chains Progressive Alice In Chains

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“I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.”

Knows Real Play Stories Father Influence Progressive Real Father

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“We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the album.”

Writing Kind Song Order Band Picks Albums Abundance

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“Sometimes I'll hear a certain approach that kinda cathes my ear, like „It's kinda cool what that guy's doing there", or maybe an effect that somebody's using, or a guitar sound, or something that kinda makes me open up. But the funny thing is i realise over time how sort of traditional i am.”

Sometimes Guy Certain Sound Effects Approach Ears Guitar Traditional Realising Funny Things That Guy Guitar Sound

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“I wanna go in the studio and just go back to the same amps and stuff I'm so comfortable with the sound of. Which I think is important to stay original.”

Thinking Important Stuff Sound Comfortable Originals Studios

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“Usually we're all comfortable playing the songs, but during the song there might be one part where you're like „oh, this part's coming up, I have to really focus", a lot of songs have those moments in them.”

Moments Might Song Focus Comfortable

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About the Author

Born: July 12, 1967
Known for: Guitarist
Quotes: 84

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