Quotes by Joe Bonamassa - Page 2

Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.
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Electric
Acoustic
Advised
Tends
Unsound
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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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Valleys
Flows
Peaks
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Improving
Moving Forward
Routine
Be Different
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At the end of the day, you, as the player, create the tone coming out of the amp. The gear is part of it but by no means all of it.
Joe Bonamassa /
Tone
End Of The Day Day End
Amp
Gear
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Charity
Auction
Guitars
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Baroque
Beyonce
Classical
Equivalent
Jay-Z
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Chameleon
Pace
Styles
Verse
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Overweight
Blues
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Electric
Acoustic
Influences
Intentional
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Vocal
Love Good Music
Devastating
Riff
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Personal Experiences
I Am People Person
Private Person
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Solo
Blues
Bridge
Guitar Players
Melodies
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Credibility
Great Music
Sells
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Guitars
Joseph
Proper
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Monument
Blues
Young Kid
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I am the poster boy for brick-by-brick foundation building. Play a club. Put on a good show for 35 people. Come back. Build your market. Have people talk about you.
Joe Bonamassa /
Poster
Poster Boy
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I was thrust into an adult world very quickly, and that can make anyone somewhat socially maladjusted to dealing with people your own age. But I wouldn't trade any of it.
Joe Bonamassa /
Thrust
Age World People
Somewhat
Socially
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Lifestyle
Substance
Tuesday
Tuesday Night
Gig
Rock Stars
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Poland
Clap
Exact
Gig
Solos
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The thing people forget about Kevin Shirley a lot of the time is that he's not only a great producer, he's also a world-class engineer. He really knows how to get a sound.
Joe Bonamassa /
World Class
Time Great People
Producer
Shirley
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Johnson
Beck
Billy
Clapton
Detach
Influences
Jeff
Jeff Beck
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If it wasn't for guys like Gary Moore, I wouldn't exist. He not only proved that the blues could rock but it could draw a crowd as well. All of which made a huge impression on me.
Joe Bonamassa /
Gary
Impression
Blues
Exist
Crowd
Draw
Moore
Proved
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Authentic
Les
Mysteries
Paul
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Bail
Scale
Improv
Scripted
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Buying
Vow
Rumour
Gibson
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When I write for an album, I'll always have about 30 different types of instrument around me. I set them up in a small room with my computer running GarageBand, which is always set to record.
Joe Bonamassa /
Different Types
Instrument
Types
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A guitar is so tactile, and when you're playing bends - and bending notes is a big part of my style - there are so many notes within the note you're bending from and the note you're bending up to.
Joe Bonamassa /
Bending
Tactile
Big Part
Note
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Faster
Beck
Blues
Clapton
Eric Clapton
Heavier
Jeff
Jeff Beck
Listened
Louder
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The blues, the way it's interpreted, is always a product of your environment, and so it's almost like food. You know, it's like you use the ingredients, and you use your life experiences that you have.
Joe Bonamassa /
Ingredients
Life Food Always
Blues
Interpreted
Life Experiences
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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?
Joe Bonamassa /
Carnegie
Mystical
Upstate New York
Beacon
City New Born
Life Long
New Yorker
Upstate
Yorker
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Just Do It
Justify
Types
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Adherence
Different Approach
Rearranging
Big Fan
Turning
Old Songs
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I'm not sure when I first heard about Beth Hart. I do remember seeing her on various TV shows. I think I'd seen her on 'Conan O'Brien' or whatever. And it seemed that whenever we'd tour Europe, our paths would cross.
Joe Bonamassa /
Conan
Hart
Tv Shows
Cross
Paths
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Spring
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That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to hip music - but it's just blues twisted a new way - while I'm playing for the college kid's parents.
Joe Bonamassa /
Black
College
Convinced
Listening
Twisted
White
Actually
Blues
College Kids
Failed
Hip
Parents
Jack
New Way
Playing
Succeeded
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
December
Lap
Plus
Spring
Time Home Me
By The Time
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I went through a period in my life where I didn't have money to buy ramen noodles and peanut butter and jelly, but I also needed to go to the guitar store and buy strings and picks and polish and rags. I couldn't live with myself if I didn't play guitar.
Joe Bonamassa /
Jelly
Noodles
Peanut Butter
Picks
Polish
Rags
Strings
Life Money Myself
Butter
Peanut
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Electric
Solo
Acoustic
First Thing
Non-Existent
Realise
The First Thing
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Genre
Heavy
Heavy Metal
Hendrix
Radio
Basically
Certainly
Guitar Players
Hear
Metal
Rock
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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.
Joe Bonamassa /
Caring
Chips
Music Start Your
Forties
Extent
Just Kind
Thirties
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The one area where I'll say that Hendrix is underrated was his ability to use chord melodies. He used different inversions of chords and was able to make a three-piece band sound absolutely huge. From the moment Hendrix and the Experience came on the scene, power trios had their work cut out for them.
Joe Bonamassa /
Chords
Hendrix
Chord
Melodies
One Area
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