Words about music (831): Joe Satriani

Life is a mixture of happiness and suffering. So, when you’re a musician or any artist for that matter, it’s difficult because it’s not a job, it’s a 24-hour a day neurosis of sort. Like when you lock your desk up or drive home from a gig or leave your job and you can just forget about everything; it’s very awful when you show up to do your job when you’re a musician, but there’s no creativity there – so you just wait. There’s that thing about you that drives you to be a player – it’s with you 24 hours a day. It’s always there. There is no holiday, no summer vacation, nothing. It is all consuming.

Joe Satriani