Susan Tedeschi Quotes

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Susan Tedeschi

Profession : Singer

Birth : November 9, 1970

Derek actually had started with The Allman Brothers in June of '99, right around his 20th birthday, and I was 28. I told him he was too young for me, but everybody knows he's an older soul than I am.

Susan Tedeschi

I played with Buddy Guy on his 63rd birthday and got to bring him a cake. And I played with B.B. King on his 73rd birthday and got to bring him a cake, too.

Susan Tedeschi

The reason we probably started dating is because I knew who Mahalia Jackson was. Derek's like, 'What? You do?' I was like, 'Yes, of course.'

Susan Tedeschi

If you're lucky enough to have a guitar player like Derek in your band, you have to give him time to shine, and I love to watch him play as much as anyone in the audience. But I do still get to play solos, and we often do a call-and-response sort of thing where we get to take solos together, and we'll just build it up from there.

Susan Tedeschi

People like Sam Cooke, maybe you get turned on to first, and then all of a sudden you realize that there are all these amazing, great gospel singers. I dig into that stuff all the time.

Susan Tedeschi

Being a woman, you feel like, 'Oh my gosh, everything has to be just right, your kids and this and that.' But there's no way you can control everything.

Susan Tedeschi

Music is a very spiritual and emotional force.

Susan Tedeschi

We have a big close-knit Italian family that honestly, just keeps growing.

Susan Tedeschi

My grandmother used to have horses, so she'd get the sled out, have all us kids ride. We'd play music together. My grandmother would sit at the organ. We'd all sing.

Susan Tedeschi

Derek, as a little kid, was out touring. I was just doing normal kid stuff.

Susan Tedeschi

At Norwell High School, I played with The Thompson Brothers. I was also in the jazz band. I acted in a lot of plays.

Susan Tedeschi

I started learning how to belt when I was about 10, and I had a great aunt who was an opera singer and she taught me how to breath right, so I think I really lucked out in the game right there with her because she was - in my eyes she was probably one of the most amazing singers I ever heard in my life.

Susan Tedeschi

It is sometimes a lot trickier to kind of be sweet and have, you know, the control and also have your voice sound like you want it to sound, 'cause every day and every time of the day is a little different.

Susan Tedeschi

Different guitar players really inspired me to want to learn how to sing on the guitar.

Susan Tedeschi

I think sometimes I tap into other people. I sometimes write about other things that I see or just different situations.

Susan Tedeschi

Sometimes the people around you really affect what you write.

Susan Tedeschi

I think, having kids, I really care more about the world. I'm not just caring about myself.

Susan Tedeschi

I got a Magic Sam record, 'West Side Soul,' and that just ruined me. His voice, pure power, and then his guitar playing, I mean, he was the first one I heard the reverb.

Susan Tedeschi

If I'm, you know, in that mind-set and you're just playing in a bar and it's dark and you just dig in, I miss those days where you can just play blues and just get all nasty.

Susan Tedeschi

Well, honestly, Derek - to me, there is no other guitar player out there like him.

Susan Tedeschi