Johnny Winter Quotes

The best artists are gone now.

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.

Little Walter I would`ve liked to have played with.

Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it.

Jimi was always at The Scene when he was in New York and we played many times together. He was just everywhere - he went out and jammed everywhere he was.

I like playin` for an audience the best, though, I think.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.

I never really got to know Jimi as a person.

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He`s a young guy.

Everybody was tellin` me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock `n` roll too.

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.

I`m not good enough to be playin` much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

I just like the blues better than rock `n` roll.

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn`t just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.

No, I wasn`t doin` any heroin when I was with Muddy.

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn`t write my name or hold my hand up.

Well, one of the best things is workin` with Muddy.

When I started workin` with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin` the blues.

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.