Gary Clark, Jr

I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

— Gary Clark, Jr

My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm…

— Gary Clark, Jr

There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival…

— Gary Clark, Jr

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

— Gary Clark, Jr

You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.

— Gary Clark, Jr

I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.

— Gary Clark, Jr

I grew up being a huge fan of Bruce Lee, and this quote always stuck out to me. He said, "Water can…

— Gary Clark, Jr

You're gonna know my name by the end of the night

— Gary Clark, Jr

I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

— Gary Clark, Jr

I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.

— Gary Clark, Jr

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put…

— Gary Clark, Jr

There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.

— Gary Clark, Jr

I opened up my mind as far as playing music. I was at a Cody Chesnutt concert a few years ago, and…

— Gary Clark, Jr

I don't believe in competition, ain't nobody else like me around

— Gary Clark, Jr

I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I…

— Gary Clark, Jr

Things that I would say or would like to saw are just easier to sing about and put out there in music.

— Gary Clark, Jr

All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I…

— Gary Clark, Jr

The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation…

— Gary Clark, Jr

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

— Gary Clark, Jr

I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel…

— Gary Clark, Jr

I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I…

— Gary Clark, Jr

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

— Gary Clark, Jr

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

— Gary Clark, Jr

I like to see how people interact with each other and I draw from that. I'm inspired by that.

— Gary Clark, Jr

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana…

— Gary Clark, Jr