“If you practice in a focused, concentrated manner and make efficient u...” — John Petrucci Quote

“If you practice in a focused, concentrated manner and make efficient use of your time, you will progress a lot faster than if you were to use the same time noodling without any specific goals or direction.”

“The best way to learn sweep picking is to first isolate the right- and left-hand techniques, master them separately and then coordinate them.”

“Before you can apply chromatic ideas to scales and arpeggios, you have to get the chromatic scale itself under your fingers. You should learn it up and down the neck, and become comfortable with the fingerings.”

“Even Dickens, who did write about servants, made them almost cartoonish, so we concentrated on them, and we had various scenarios, synopses, and then we realized you can't only have downstairs people. There's a gap. You have to have who they serve, so I guess it just gradually grew into 'Downstairs, Upstairs.'”

“The ability to scale up is hard. So the best model for us is concentrated India, diversified financial services, and through this, we can get significant scale on an Indian platform.”