Joe Bonamassa Quotes
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If you have a good riff with a vocal as well, then it becomes a devastating song. That's why people love riff-rock: it's the ultimate air guitar music.
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When you think blues, you think BB King. Even a young kid can look at a picture of BB King and say, 'the blues.' The man is more than a musician. He's a monument.
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I think great music sells records, and I also think, do you want to be a reality star, or someone that actually has credibility? Because you can't have both.
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There's great cars, and then there's Aston Martins. Same thing for the 1959 Les Paul - it's an authentic piece of art that can never truly be replicated, and its mysteries are special.
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There was a rumour that I was buying Gibson. It circulated around the Internet... And I just go, 'How well off do you think I am?' I play blues-rock for a living. It's like a vow of poverty.
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I'm a kooky collector and own a couple of hundred guitars.
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I'm honored people think enough of my playing to chase my sound. Hell, I chase other players' tones all the time.
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One of these days, when I get tired of it all, I'll keep six guitars and the amps I'm using, and I'll have a big old auction for charity.
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The fact that I tour religiously in the spring, religiously in the fall, and do 125 shows - you can set your watch to that. And you could have set your watch to that in 2000 or 1999, and you can set your watch to it in 2012.
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There's always talk about the blues dying out, but it won't.
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A great solo is one that's so frail that it actually teeters on the edge of falling apart, but doesn't.
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There's a certain thing when you start getting into your late thirties or early forties where you stop caring. Not to the extent where you stop caring about the music, you just stop caring about what anyone thinks of you, and you just kind of let it go - let the chips fall where they may.
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If we got into a time machine and went back to the 1700s, classical and baroque music would have been the equivalent of Beyonce and Jay-Z.
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When you're 12 and, you know, slightly overweight and - for lack of a better word - white, and you're playing blues, you get a lot of press.
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The first thing you realise very quickly when you decide to do an acoustic version of an electric song is your solo either becomes either very truncated, very different, or non-existent, because even if you play a clean solo, it's different with the Kryptonite... with the acoustic.
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At the end of the day, you really want to make sure that organic music, made by human beings, at least has a voice.
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As far as actual playing, Clapton - by far - is my biggest influence, and you can tuck Jeff Beck underneath that.
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It doesn't matter if people take the music for free, because you can't illegally download a ticket to a concert.
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I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.
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I collect as many acoustic guitars as I need for a specific purpose. Acoustic guitars are really just tools for me.
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You often see lifestyle over substance in L.A. Some rock stars dress up like they're going to play a gig when they're just going to the 7-Eleven store on a Tuesday night.
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I've always been a big fan of taking old songs and completely turning them on their head. Having no adherence to the fine tradition of the original version. Rearranging them and taking a different approach to them.
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I've been lucky and very fortunate over the course of my career, and I try to do something good for people every day.
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If you keep working hard and not take 'no' for an answer, you achieve.