Joey Santiago Quotes

• 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

• The song I like to do is ‘Dead.’ I’m constantly playing that one.

  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

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

  Joey Santiago

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

  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

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

  Joey Santiago

• It does just boil down to music.

  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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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 can hardly understand the Australian accent.

  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

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

  Joey Santiago

Joey Santiago (16)

Birth:	10th June, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist

About

Joseph Alberto "Joey" Santiago was born in Manila, Philippines. He is a Filipino-born American guitarist and composer. He is best known as the lead guitarist for the American alternative rock band the Pixies (1986-1993). He also contributed to albums by Charles Douglas and former Pixies band-mate Frank Black. He has described his guitar technique as "angular and bent". He studied at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His albums list shown below (band by Pixies): Come On Pilgrim, Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, Bossanova, Trompe le Monde, Indie Cindy, and Head Carrier. (band by Frank Black): Frank Black, Teenager of the Year, and Frank Black Francis. (band by The Martinis): Smitten.

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