Susan Tedeschi Quotes

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Susan Tedeschi

Profession : Singer

Birth : November 9, 1970

What we've learned is there's no right way to write a song.

Susan Tedeschi

Being in a band with 11 people has made us learn everyone needs to compromise.

Susan Tedeschi

I'm just honored to be in a band with Derek. He's incredible.

Susan Tedeschi

We have a rule about how much we will work, so that we're not away from our kids for too long.

Susan Tedeschi

Playing shows is great, but so is being at home for your son's little league games.

Susan Tedeschi

When I play live, I use a Fender Super Reverb and I have Derek's old, well, actually it's Eric Clapton's old Beano Les Paul copy that he gave to Derek that I play a lot. And then I have a '90s Tele.

Susan Tedeschi

You can have a song that means one thing to one person and a completely different thing to another, but it can have the same kind of impact.

Susan Tedeschi

It can really changes someone's life or make them think, 'Wow! I can do this. We can do this.' It's cool. I love how music can do that.

Susan Tedeschi

Musicians and artists, they are going to stand together for community and you are going to bring people in and figure out what you have in common.

Susan Tedeschi

When you're in the Allman Brothers, you would think you'd be able to play freely on guitar.

Susan Tedeschi

The more life stories you have together, the more you have to say on stage.

Susan Tedeschi

You need to do at least 100, 150 shows a year to get really good.

Susan Tedeschi

The people I liked all told a story playing guitar. There are a lot of flashy guys out there I didn't like. Whereas someone like B.B. King could play one note and make people feel it - that's way deeper.

Susan Tedeschi

I really focused on rhythm guitar playing at first because it was important to know the song and chords first before taking a solo. A lot of people get up and jam, but they don't know the song. It's hard to say anything, emote anything, with that approach.

Susan Tedeschi

Society is moving so fast, at some point it's good to make up your mind about where you're really coming from.

Susan Tedeschi

For me, the most powerful form of music was gospel music. It led me to the blues.

Susan Tedeschi

There are a lot of amazing artists out there.

Susan Tedeschi

Derek ended up being in so many projects, he decided at a certain point it was time to focus on one thing. He asked me if I'd be interested in collaborating. Of course, at the time, we were doing great with our solo bands, and things were happening.

Susan Tedeschi

I went to jazz college and didn't know diddly about jazz like Derek did. He knew more about jazz and the country-blues artists, folkie acoustic artists like Robert Johnson and Mississippi John Hurt and Son House. I knew some about that stuff.

Susan Tedeschi

Sometimes you see these great musicians on the same playbill, in concert together, and it blows your mind.

Susan Tedeschi