26+ Johnny Winter Quotes On Our Discontent, Contradictions And Limb

Top 10 Johnny Winter Quotes

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   I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

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   The best artists are gone now.

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   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.

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   I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

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   My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

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   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.

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   When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

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   Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.

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    I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at.

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    I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.

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Johnny Winter Short Quotes

• When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

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• Every now and then I know it's kinda hard to tell, but I'm still alive and well.

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• I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12

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• Little Walter I would've liked to have played with

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• I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think

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• Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it

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• T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

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Johnny Winter Quotes About Blues

• 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.

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• The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much.

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• I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

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• When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

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• The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record

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• I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll

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• I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

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Johnny Winter Famous Quotes And Sayings

• I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.

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• 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.

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