Quotes by Joey Santiago

About Joey Santiago:

Joseph Alberto "Joey" Santiago is a Filipino-American guitarist and composer. Active since 1986, Santiago is best known as the lead guitarist for the American alternative rock band the Pixies. After the band's breakup in 1993, Santiago produced musical scores for film and television documentaries, and he formed The Martinis with his wife, Linda Mallari. He also contributed to albums by Charles Douglas and former Pixies band-mate Frank Black. Santiago resumed his role as the Pixies' lead guitarist when they reunited in 2004.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.

Joey Santiago

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

Joey Santiago

I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.

Joey Santiago

It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!

Joey Santiago

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

Joey Santiago

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

Joey Santiago

I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.

Joey Santiago

I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.

Joey Santiago

I screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets like the Edge has.

Joey Santiago

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

Joey Santiago

The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

Joey Santiago

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

Joey Santiago

Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.

Joey Santiago

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

Joey Santiago

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

Joey Santiago

I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

Joey Santiago

It does just boil down to music.

Joey Santiago

Author Bio

  • NameJoey Santiago
  • DescriptionAlternative rock musician
  • BornJune 10, 1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionMusician; Guitarist