Harmonica Quotes

I`ve always been a singer; it`s not new to me. I`ve been singing since I was a child. I`ve always had a guitar and a harmonica and I played drums in high school -- in a marching band, anyway. I like different kinds of music and I`m exploring them: ballads, blues, blues-rock, country rock, whatever. I`m just focusing on singing a lot so I can get good at it. But don`t say I play "country music." It`s just another label, like "character actor." One term simply can`t say it all.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I`ve been doing it for a long time.

The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the "Blonde on Blonde" album. It`s that thin, that wild mercury sound. It`s metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up. That`s my particular sound. I haven`t been able to succeed in getting it all the time. Mostly I`ve been driving at a combination of guitar, harmonica and organ.

(For the first several songs, Hiatt performed with rock `n` roll energy, sawing away on his guitar and blowing his harmonica with near abandon. After completing a furious version of) Your Dad Did, ... I love folk music.

I`ve been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.

I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing.