Johnny Winter quotes
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“I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll”
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“I think the blues will always be around. People need it.”
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“I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.”
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“I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues”
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“Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it”
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“I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12”
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“I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think”
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“When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.”
-- Johnny WinterSource : Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.
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“T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.”
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“The Rock'n'Blues Fest is my kind of festival series! It's always great playing shows with my brother and, add to that, all the other great artists and their bands and this should make for one historic round of concerts.”
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“Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.”
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“When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.”
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“I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.”
-- Johnny WinterSource : Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.
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“I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.”
-- Johnny WinterSource : "A Bluesman Looks Back, Through a Few Old Songs" by Andy Langer, www.nytimes.com. February 8, 2014.
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“I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at,”
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“I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.”
-- Johnny WinterSource : "Johnny Winter, blues guitarist, dies aged 70", www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2014.
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“When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.”
-- Johnny WinterSource : "Johnny Winter, blues guitarist, dies aged 70", www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2014.
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“Every now and then I know it's kinda hard to tell, but I'm still alive and well.”
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“Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.”
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“Little Walter I would've liked to have played with”
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“I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself”
-- Johnny WinterSource : Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.
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“Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.”
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“There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland”
-- Johnny WinterSource : Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.
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“The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record”
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“My mother played piano so we always had music around the house”
-- Johnny WinterSource : Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.
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