100 Quotes by Joe Bonamassa

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

As far as actual playing, Clapton - by far - is my biggest influence, and you can tuck Jeff Beck underneath that.

If we got into a time machine and went back to the 1700s, classical and baroque music would have been the equivalent of Beyonce and Jay-Z.

I'm a self-loathing slide player. Some people like the way I play slide - I hate it.

When you've done so many records in 20 years like I have, you're going to have ebbs and flows and go through peaks and valleys.

Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz.

'Beck-Ola' is a weird album.

John Mayall doesn't get enough credit. He's not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is a tragedy.

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