I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.

I'm always looking for something new to do.

I feel like I always learn from somebody who can do something better than I can.

I work well under pressure.

It doesn't matter if people take the music for free, because you can't illegally download a ticket to a concert.

I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.

I love to collect guitars made in the 1950s. I like preserving and playing them.

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.

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.

Some people don't like me at all. But... whatever. It comes with the territory.

I've never been universally loved from the beginning.

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.

I'm not a household name; I'm just a household name to guitar freaks.

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.

A great solo is one that's so frail that it actually teeters on the edge of falling apart, but doesn't.

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.

I'll tell you, what the world doesn't need is another Joe Bonamassa DVD.

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?

I collect as many acoustic guitars as I need for a specific purpose. Acoustic guitars are really just tools for me.

When you go into a situation, and you're honest and straight-up about something, you put all your cards on the table.

I've always been a fan of the five-speed transmission - on anything.

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.

My goal for 'Black Rock' was pretty simple: I wanted to make the feel-good record of the summer.

Greece is so beautiful and inspiring.

That's right, I take vocal lessons - done it for years. There's nothing wrong with it.

I'm a self-loathing slide player. Some people like the way I play slide - I hate it.

'Beck-Ola' is a weird album.

John Mayall doesn't get enough credit. He's not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is a tragedy.

I really loved being able to perform my songs and sing them myself.

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.

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.

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.

I'm honored people think enough of my playing to chase my sound. Hell, I chase other players' tones all the time.

In football, for some reason, I was a Houston Oilers fan.

I don't know who had a more tiresome, wall-to-wall schedule than my father, and I know what it's like to be a kid in that situation. He was gone a lot. He needed to be. I understood it. So did my mom.

You can't interview Pete Rose and not ask about betting on the Reds and being banned from baseball.

Broadcasting is a brutal, often unfair business, where looks are valued more than skill.

I mean the home run king, to me, is Hank Aaron, but statistically, it's Barry Bonds.

OK, I will never say anything degrading or bad about Tom Brady. He is a god in cleats.

Nobody's tuning in - let's check the TV Guide listings and see what game Joe Buck is calling. Nobody cares. They want to see the Cubs. They want to see the Packers. They want to see the Cowboys. They don't care who's calling the game.

I'm lucky that I was born to these parents. I'm lucky that my dad wanted to be around me, that he took me to all these National League cities by the time I was 12.

I always try to shine the spotlight on what's happening on the field and not what's coming out of my mouth.

I know what baldness can do to a man. When you see guys with a toupee that should come with a chinstrap, or somebody whose been through hair replacement surgery and tapped out early because it's too painful, you realize guys will do anything to maintain their sense of virility. They don't want to give up looking young.

I have a casual interest in the NBA.

I, Joseph Francis Buck, became a hair-plug addict.

Broadcasting golf is not like broadcasting baseball or football. You see the ball and the action through your own eyes. The story is unfolding in front of you. In golf, the story is unfolding here and there and everywhere. As the guy in the broadcast tower, you're getting it all on screens and from reporters in the field. It's a tricky business.

Pat Summerall personified less is more. His play-by-play was so bare bones but so great because he had a great, deep-toned voice.

If you're confident in what you do, the compliment doesn't matter.

There are a lot of people across the country, for as silly as this sounds, who obsess about hair loss.

I don't want to keep doing the same thing over and over for the rest of my life.