Johnny Winter famous quotes

04-17-2025

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll
-- Johnny Winter

#Rocks #Rock N Roll
I think the blues will always be around. People need it.
-- Johnny Winter

#Thinking #People #Needs
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.
-- Johnny Winter

#Mean #Men #Guitar
I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues
-- Johnny Winter

#Blow #Appreciate #Acoustics
Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it
-- Johnny Winter

#Play
I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12
-- Johnny Winter

#Play #Careers #Age
I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think
-- Johnny Winter

#Thinking #Audience
When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.
-- Johnny Winter

#Night #Age #Clubs
T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.
-- Johnny Winter

#Player #Guitar #Influence
The Rock'n'Blues Fest is my kind of festival series! It's always great playing shows with my brother and, add to that, all the other great artists and their bands and this should make for one historic round of concerts.
-- Johnny Winter

#Brother #Artist #Rocks
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.
-- Johnny Winter

#Writing #Hands #Names
The best artists are gone now.
-- Johnny Winter

#Artist #Gone #Best Artist
When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.
-- Johnny Winter

#Get Away
I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.
-- Johnny Winter

#Thinking #People #Persons
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.
-- Johnny Winter

#Thinking #The End Of The Day #Legacy
I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at,
-- Johnny Winter

#Guitar #Playing Guitar
I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.
-- Johnny Winter

#Musician #Blues Music #Remembered
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.
-- Johnny Winter

#Feelings #Musician #Emotion
Every now and then I know it's kinda hard to tell, but I'm still alive and well.
-- Johnny Winter

#Alive #Now And Then #Wells
Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.
-- Johnny Winter

#Real #Artist #Guy
Little Walter I would've liked to have played with
-- Johnny Winter

#Littles
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
-- Johnny Winter

#Guitar #Years #Ukulele
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.
-- Johnny Winter

#Rocks #Rock N Roll #Different
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
-- Johnny Winter

#Two #Blue #People
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record
-- Johnny Winter

#Winter #Rocks #Records
My mother played piano so we always had music around the house
-- Johnny Winter

#Mother #Piano #House

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