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.
• 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.
• Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it.
• My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.
• Little Walter I would've liked to have played with.
• Jimi was always at The Scene when he was in New York and we played many times together. He was just everywhere - he went out and jammed everywhere he was.
• 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.
• The best artists are gone now.
• I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.
• The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.
• I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.
• I never really got to know Jimi as a person.
• I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think.
• I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.
• I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.
• Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.
• I think the blues will always be around. People need it.
• 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.
• Well, one of the best things is workin' with Muddy.
• When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.
• When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.
• 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.
• T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.