Acoustic guitar Quote by Joe Bonamassa

“I collect as many acoustic guitars as I need for a specific purpose. Acoustic guitars are really just tools for me.” quote by Joe Bonamassa — Download Open image

“I collect as many acoustic guitars as I need for a specific purpose. Acoustic guitars are really just tools for me.”

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

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My first proper 'Here's your guitar, Joseph' was a 1981 Chiquita, one of those Erlewine travel guitars. And it was good for a four-year-old…

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When you're 12 and, you know, slightly overweight and - for lack of a better word - white, and you're playing blues, you get…

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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 like you…

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At the end of the day, you really want to make sure that organic music, made by human beings, at least has a voice.

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If I'm soloing, I usually try to start with a theme, which will often stem from the blues.

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

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There was a rumour that I was buying Gibson. It circulated around the Internet... And I just go, 'How well off do you think…

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

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

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I've always been a big fan of taking old songs and completely turning them on their head. Having no adherence to the fine tradition…

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My first memory of guitar was seeing my father play one.

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“Other freshmen were already moving into their dormitory rooms when we arrived, with their parents helping haul. I saw boxes of paperbacks, stereo equipment, Dylan albums and varnished acoustic guitars, home-knitted afghans, none as brilliant as mine, Janis posters, Bowie posters, Day-Glo bedsheets, hacky sacks, stuffed bears. But as we carried my trunk up two flights of stairs terror invaded…

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