QUOTES by Joe Bonamassa
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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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A guitar is a guitar. Whether it was made yesterday or 51 years ago, if it's good, it will stand the test of time.
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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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Most blues guitar players don't concentrate on singing and melodies. And forget about the bridge - the bridge doesn't exist. They go straight for the solo.
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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 a self-loathing slide player. Some people like the way I play slide - I hate it.
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That's right, I take vocal lessons - done it for years. There's nothing wrong with it.
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My goal for 'Black Rock' was pretty simple: I wanted to make the feel-good record of the summer.
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There are good '59 Les Pauls, and there are not-so-good ones. There are ones that are just OK, that don't sustain as well.
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When you go into a situation, and you're honest and straight-up about something, you put all your cards on the table.
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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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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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It's nice just to be able to go out and, basically, be able to play other types of music and not have any pressure to almost explain it and justify why you did. I just do it because I like to have some fun.
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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 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 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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Some people don't like me at all. But... whatever. It comes with the territory.
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I learned that if I put my mind to something vocally, I can pull it off. You just have to get your head-space right.
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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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I love to collect guitars made in the 1950s. I like preserving and playing them.
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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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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 feel like I always learn from somebody who can do something better than I can.
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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'm probably a more intentional acoustic player than I am an electric player because of lack of influences. I just play acoustic to see what happens.
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Whenever I hear my playing, I can't detach from my influences: there's my Jeff Beck, there's the Clapton bit, the Eric Johnson bit, the Birelli Lagrene bit, the Billy Gibbons.
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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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At the end of the day, I think having some life experience is helpful to play any kind of music.
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My first proper 'Here's your guitar, Joseph' was a 1981 Chiquita, one of those Erlewine travel guitars. And it was good for a four-year-old because it was small.
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Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz.
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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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I like to be in the room with players that are better than me. That's always a good place to be.
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I'm not one of those people that has to share personal experiences. That's not really the kind of writer I am. I'm a very private person to begin with.
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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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