Joe Bonamassa

It's good to see young kids getting into the blues.

— Joe Bonamassa

I work well under pressure.

— Joe Bonamassa

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

— Joe Bonamassa

I'm always looking for something new to do.

— Joe Bonamassa

I've never been universally loved from the beginning.

— Joe Bonamassa

I live, breathe, and sleep guitars.

— Joe Bonamassa

Greece is so beautiful and inspiring.

— Joe Bonamassa

British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.

— Joe Bonamassa

You know who I'd like to open for? This will be a surprise, but I'll tell you who: Iron Maiden.

— Joe Bonamassa

My goal for 'Black Rock' was pretty simple: I wanted to make the feel-good record of the summer.

— Joe Bonamassa

I like to be in the room with players that are better than me. That's always a good place to be.

— Joe Bonamassa

I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.

— Joe Bonamassa

I used to watch MTV when they played music, and discovered Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Healey.

— Joe Bonamassa

Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.

— Joe Bonamassa

I don't have any legato skills; I could never figure out how to roll the notes off.

— Joe Bonamassa

Everything Paul Kossoff did came from his fingers and went right into the amp. He was his own effects unit.

— Joe Bonamassa

That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something…

— Joe Bonamassa

I've really gotten over pedals. I can't keep up with this craze of boutique pedals that make you sound like everything but…

— Joe Bonamassa

When you play a gig in Poland or Australia, or you play a gig in Toledo, they all clap at the same…

— Joe Bonamassa

I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.

— Joe Bonamassa

It's nice just to be able to go out and, basically, be able to play other types of music and not have…

— Joe Bonamassa

I don't really do scales... I mean, I play parts of them, but then I bail and start playing parts of other…

— Joe Bonamassa

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

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

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

The first thing you realise very quickly when you decide to do an acoustic version of an electric song is your solo…

— Joe Bonamassa

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

The fact that I tour religiously in the spring, religiously in the fall, and do 125 shows - you can set your…

— Joe Bonamassa

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

I'm not sure when I first heard about Beth Hart. I do remember seeing her on various TV shows. I think I'd…

— Joe Bonamassa

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

Basically, 2011 was the hardest year on the road for me because I did a spring tour and a fall tour plus…

— Joe Bonamassa

I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.

— Joe Bonamassa

'Beck-Ola' is a weird album.

— Joe Bonamassa

I really loved being able to perform my songs and sing them myself.

— Joe Bonamassa

That's right, I take vocal lessons - done it for years. There's nothing wrong with it.

— Joe Bonamassa

I never had this ego where I must write everything. I'm not Bob Dylan.

— Joe Bonamassa

I love to collect guitars made in the 1950s. I like preserving and playing them.

— Joe Bonamassa

A great solo is one that's so frail that it actually teeters on the edge of falling apart, but doesn't.

— Joe Bonamassa

It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.

— Joe Bonamassa