Black Country Communion Quotes
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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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That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.
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When you've done so many records in 20 years like I have, you're going to have ebbs and flows and go through peaks and valleys.
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Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.
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Some people don't like me at all. But... whatever. It comes with the territory.
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When you play a gig in Poland or Australia, or you play a gig in Toledo, they all clap at the same parts of the show. They're clapping for the solos in the exact same way.
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Nothing I'm doing musically is revolutionary in any way, shape, or form.
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I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.
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Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.
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Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder, heavier, and faster than the traditional blues that I was listening to.
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I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.
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I don't really do scales... I mean, I play parts of them, but then I bail and start playing parts of other things. The term 'scale' feels very scripted to me because I'm an improv player.
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I think what I do really well is that I can 'chameleon' myself into many styles at a very fast pace, sometimes in the same verse of a song.
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John Mayall doesn't get enough credit. He's not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is a tragedy.
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I'm an acoustic guitar owner - in the sense that I own them, and they sit at my house, and I never play them.
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If I feel like things are getting into a routine, I want them to be different. I need to keep improving and keep moving forward.
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I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.
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Carnegie was a life-long dream because I was a born New Yorker. I was born in upstate New York, and we've played Radio City, and we've played The Beacon, but Carnegie was this mystical place, you know?
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Basically, 2011 was the hardest year on the road for me because I did a spring tour and a fall tour plus nine weeks in the summer, and I was pretty worse for wear by the time I got home in December. I know I was only 34, but that was a tough lap.
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It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.
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I used to watch MTV when they played music, and discovered Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Healey.
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I'm a self-loathing slide player. Some people like the way I play slide - I hate it.
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I never had this ego where I must write everything. I'm not Bob Dylan.
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I don't think there's any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, any guitar stuff when you get right down to it - Jimi did it. He's certainly the guy who basically invented the blues-rock genre for guitar players.