"If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's eye, right? Your mind has an ear too. It's a kind of listening, but it's not using your ears to listen. It's listening with your inner ear, and that's what you want to translate onto the guitar." - Steve Vai
"Learn this stuff! It makes your fingers much smarter!" - Paul Gilbert
"I don't personally know Michael Angelo or his music, but regarding contests and who is faster or whatever. It doesn't interest me. Trying to determine who picks more notes per second is ridiculous. What is important is the quality of the music and how well it speaks to fans who love it," - Yngwie Malmsteen
"A few things you should know about me: 1) I can play faster than you. 2) I can do it with both hands at once!"- Michael Angelo Batio
'As my guitar playing dwindled, something else in my music got better. Many times in music, if you are given limitations, it expands the creativity." - Jason Becker
"To call Jason a genius is an understatement. He doesn't cater to trends, target audiences, marketing gimmicks or anything like that. He plays out the emotions from his heart and makes real music that is a salute to the human spirit. Jason is a prodigy and on 'Perspective' he realizes his miraculous potential"- Marty Friedman
Nigel Tufnel (Spinal Tap): "Well, every instrument has its own personality. For example, I love the piano for the depth of its feeling. But the piano is not really an instrument � it's really taking an orchestra, shrinking the people and putting them in a box. The guitar is actually an opera singer with a long neck and infinite volume. If you're not making it sing, you might as well go home."