Joe Bonamassa Quotes

Joe Bonamassa

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 8, 1977

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

At the end of the day, I think having some life experience is helpful to play any kind of music.

Joe Bonamassa

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

I'm actually much more of a rock player than many people think.

Joe Bonamassa

Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.

Joe Bonamassa

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

I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.

Joe Bonamassa

I've really gotten over pedals. I can't keep up with this craze of boutique pedals that make you sound like everything but your guitar. I can't get my head around it.

Joe Bonamassa

If I'm soloing, I usually try to start with a theme, which will often stem from the blues.

Joe Bonamassa

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

I don't have any legato skills; I could never figure out how to roll the notes off.

Joe Bonamassa

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

I'm always looking for something new to do.

Joe Bonamassa

I feel like I always learn from somebody who can do something better than I can.

Joe Bonamassa

It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.

Joe Bonamassa

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

I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.

Joe Bonamassa

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

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

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