I'm a self-loathing slide player. Some people like the way I play slide - I hate it. — Joe Bonamassa Hate Copy Share Image
I'll tell you, what the world doesn't need is another Joe Bonamassa DVD. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I really loved being able to perform my songs and sing them myself. — Joe Bonamassa Being Copy Share Image
That's right, I take vocal lessons - done it for years. There's nothing wrong with it. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
Everything Paul Kossoff did came from his fingers and went right into the amp. He was his own effects unit. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I love to collect guitars made in the 1950s. I like preserving and playing them. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I'm probably a more intentional acoustic player than I am an electric player because of lack of influences. I just play acoustic… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
Most blues guitar players don't concentrate on singing and melodies. And forget about the bridge - the bridge doesn't exist. They go… — Joe Bonamassa Blues Copy Share Image
The blues, the way it's interpreted, is always a product of your environment, and so it's almost like food. You know, it's… — Joe Bonamassa Blues Copy Share Image
When I write for an album, I'll always have about 30 different types of instrument around me. I set them up in… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
There are good '59 Les Pauls, and there are not-so-good ones. There are ones that are just OK, that don't sustain as… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
Carnegie was a life-long dream because I was a born New Yorker. I was born in upstate New York, and we've played… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
When you're 12 and, you know, slightly overweight and - for lack of a better word - white, and you're playing blues,… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I learned that if I put my mind to something vocally, I can pull it off. You just have to get your… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I went through a period in my life where I didn't have money to buy ramen noodles and peanut butter and jelly,… — Joe Bonamassa Guitar Copy Share Image
The fact that I tour religiously in the spring, religiously in the fall, and do 125 shows - you can set your… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
The first thing you realise very quickly when you decide to do an acoustic version of an electric song is your solo… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to… — Joe Bonamassa Black keys Copy Share Image
The one area where I'll say that Hendrix is underrated was his ability to use chord melodies. He used different inversions of… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
There's a certain thing when you start getting into your late thirties or early forties where you stop caring. Not to the… — Joe Bonamassa Caring Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock,… — Joe Bonamassa Guitar Copy Share Image
Basically, 2011 was the hardest year on the road for me because I did a spring tour and a fall tour plus… — Joe Bonamassa Home Copy Share Image
I never had this ego where I must write everything. I'm not Bob Dylan. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
A great solo is one that's so frail that it actually teeters on the edge of falling apart, but doesn't. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I like to be in the room with players that are better than me. That's always a good place to be. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I used to watch MTV when they played music, and discovered Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Healey. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
