Johnny Winter Quotes
"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."
- Johnny Winter
(Related: Love)
"Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it."
- Johnny Winter
(Related: Love, Play, Road)
"My mother played piano so we always had music around the house."
- Johnny Winter
(Related: Music, Mother)
"Little Walter I would've liked to have played with."
- Johnny Winter
"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."
- Johnny Winter
"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."
- Johnny Winter
(Related: Guitar, Man, Right, Sound)
"The best artists are gone now."
- Johnny Winter
(Related: Artists, Now)
"I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues."
- Johnny Winter
(Related: People, Will)
"The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record."
- Johnny Winter
(Related: Favorite, Winter)
"I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues."
- Johnny Winter
"I never really got to know Jimi as a person."
- Johnny Winter
"I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think."
- Johnny Winter
"I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll."
- Johnny Winter
"I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12."
- Johnny Winter
(Related: Age, Music, Career, Play)
"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy."
- Johnny Winter
(Related: Artist)
"I think the blues will always be around. People need it."
- Johnny Winter
(Related: People, Will)
"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."
- Johnny Winter
(Related: People)
"Well, one of the best things is workin' with Muddy."
- Johnny Winter
"When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15."
- Johnny Winter
(Related: Age, Music, Night, Old)
"When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues."
- Johnny Winter
"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."
- Johnny Winter
(Related: England, Name)
"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."
- Johnny Winter
(Related: Guitar, Influence)