50 Quotes by Johnny Winter

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The best artists are gone now.

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

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