Joe Bonamassa Quotes

Joe Bonamassa

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 8, 1977

I work well under pressure.

Joe Bonamassa

It doesn't matter if people take the music for free, because you can't illegally download a ticket to a concert.

Joe Bonamassa

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

I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.

Joe Bonamassa

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

I love to collect guitars made in the 1950s. I like preserving and playing them.

Joe Bonamassa

To sell out London's Hammersmith Apollo is amazing. Selling it out for two nights? Even better.

Joe Bonamassa

At the end of the day, you really want to make sure that organic music, made by human beings, at least has a voice.

Joe Bonamassa

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

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

You know who I'd like to open for? This will be a surprise, but I'll tell you who: Iron Maiden.

Joe Bonamassa

I learned that if I put my mind to something vocally, I can pull it off. You just have to get your head-space right.

Joe Bonamassa

I never had this ego where I must write everything. I'm not Bob Dylan.

Joe Bonamassa

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

I live, breathe, and sleep guitars.

Joe Bonamassa

I'm a kooky collector and own a couple of hundred guitars.

Joe Bonamassa

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

I collect as many acoustic guitars as I need for a specific purpose. Acoustic guitars are really just tools for me.

Joe Bonamassa

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

When you go into a situation, and you're honest and straight-up about something, you put all your cards on the table.

Joe Bonamassa