45 Quotes by Gary Clark, Jr.

I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.

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 play music. It's natural for me to go with what I feel. If I didn't let that other stuff out and stuck to a certain format, I would feel like I was missing out on something. I'm just enjoying my ride and being who I am.

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

All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I love to do, and that's pretty much it.

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

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.

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

I grew up being a huge fan of Bruce Lee, and this quote always stuck out to me. He said, "Water can flow, or it can crash. If you put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot." It always made sense to me to adapt the flow and roll with whatever the situation is and to not think about it too much and get caught up in it. It works easier for me that way.

The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. Its cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. Its not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.