Joe Bonamassa Quotes

Joe Bonamassa

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 8, 1977

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

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

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

Joe Bonamassa

I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.

Joe Bonamassa

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

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

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

I like to be in the room with players that are better than me. That's always a good place to be.

Joe Bonamassa

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

Joe Bonamassa

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

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

Joe Bonamassa

If you keep working hard and not take 'no' for an answer, you achieve.

Joe Bonamassa

Sometimes you have to blame yourself before you can blame others.

Joe Bonamassa

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

Nothing I'm doing musically is revolutionary in any way, shape, or form.

Joe Bonamassa

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

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

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.

Joe Bonamassa

Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz.

Joe Bonamassa

My first memory of guitar was seeing my father play one.

Joe Bonamassa