Edgar Winter Quotes

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Edgar Winter

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 28, 1946

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

Edgar Winter

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

Edgar Winter

I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs.

Edgar Winter

I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

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We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.

Edgar Winter

But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.

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I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.

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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

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The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

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I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

Edgar Winter

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

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When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it would always feed back and you could never turn it up loud enough to be heard and I would beat my hands black and blue and bloody.

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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

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So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

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I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

Edgar Winter

I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.

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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.

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