100 Quotes by Joe Bonamassa

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

I've never been universally loved from the beginning.

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

I live, breathe, and sleep guitars.

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 hip music - but it's just blues twisted a new way - while I'm playing for the college kid's parents.

I'm not a household name; I'm just a household name to guitar freaks.

I went through a period in my life where I didn't have money to buy ramen noodles and peanut butter and jelly, but I also needed to go to the guitar store and buy strings and picks and polish and rags. I couldn't live with myself if I didn't play guitar.

I'm a kooky collector and own a couple of hundred guitars.

Carnegie was a life-long dream because I was a born New Yorker. I was born in upstate New York, and we've played Radio City, and we've played The Beacon, but Carnegie was this mystical place, you know?