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Joey Santiago [1965-0] Filipino
Rank: 110
Musician, Guitarist


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. 


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It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.
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People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.
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Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.
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I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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I can hardly understand the Australian accent.
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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.
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I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.
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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.
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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.
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It does just boil down to music.
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It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.
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The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.
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Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.
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