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I live, breathe, and sleep guitars.
Greece is so beautiful and inspiring.
I'm always looking for something new to do.
I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.
Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?
It's good to see young kids getting into the blues.
British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.
I've never been universally loved from the beginning.
It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.
I'm a kooky collector and own a couple of hundred guitars.
There's always talk about the blues dying out, but it won't.
Sometimes you have to blame yourself before you can blame others.
I've always been a fan of the five-speed transmission - on anything.
I'm not a household name; I'm just a household name to guitar freaks.
I never had this ego where I must write everything. I'm not Bob Dylan.
If you keep working hard and not take 'no' for an answer, you achieve.
Nothing I'm doing musically is revolutionary in any way, shape, or form.
I'll tell you, what the world doesn't need is another Joe Bonamassa DVD.
I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.
Some people don't like me at all. But... whatever. It comes with the territory.
I love to collect guitars made in the 1950s. I like preserving and playing them.
I don't have any legato skills; I could never figure out how to roll the notes off.
I'm a self-loathing slide player. Some people like the way I play slide - I hate it.
That's right, I take vocal lessons - done it for years. There's nothing wrong with it.
If I'm soloing, I usually try to start with a theme, which will often stem from the blues.
All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.
You know who I'd like to open for? This will be a surprise, but I'll tell you who: Iron Maiden.
To sell out London's Hammersmith Apollo is amazing. Selling it out for two nights? Even better.
I like to be in the room with players that are better than me. That's always a good place to be.
At the end of the day, I think having some life experience is helpful to play any kind of music.
Jimi Hendrix is a classic example of a player in which everything he did, it was all in his hands.
Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz.
John Mayall doesn't get enough credit. He's not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is a tragedy.
A great solo is one that's so frail that it actually teeters on the edge of falling apart, but doesn't.
I used to watch MTV when they played music, and discovered Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Healey.
I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.
Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.
Everything Paul Kossoff did came from his fingers and went right into the amp. He was his own effects unit.
I'm an acoustic guitar owner - in the sense that I own them, and they sit at my house, and I never play them.
It doesn't matter if people take the music for free, because you can't illegally download a ticket to a concert.
I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.
As far as actual playing, Clapton - by far - is my biggest influence, and you can tuck Jeff Beck underneath that.
I'm honored people think enough of my playing to chase my sound. Hell, I chase other players' tones all the time.
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.
At the end of the day, you really want to make sure that organic music, made by human beings, at least has a voice.
I collect as many acoustic guitars as I need for a specific purpose. Acoustic guitars are really just tools for me.
I've been lucky and very fortunate over the course of my career, and I try to do something good for people every day.
When you go into a situation, and you're honest and straight-up about something, you put all your cards on the table.
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.
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.