Johnny Winter Quotes

• I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll

  Johnny Winter

  Rocks, Rock N Roll

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• I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

  Johnny Winter

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• 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

  "A Bluesman Looks Back, Through a Few Old Songs" by Andy Langer, www.nytimes.com. February 8, 2014.

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

  Johnny Winter

  Musician, Blues Music, Remembered

  "Johnny Winter, blues guitarist, dies aged 70", www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2014.

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• The best artists are gone now.

  Johnny Winter

  Artist, Gone, Best Artist

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• 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

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• I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

  Johnny Winter

  Thinking, People, Persons

  Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.

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• 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

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• When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

  Johnny Winter

  Get Away, Muddy, Convinced

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• My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

  Johnny Winter

  Music, Mother, Piano

  Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.

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• 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

  "Johnny Winter, blues guitarist, dies aged 70", www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2014.

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

  Johnny Winter

  Blow, Appreciate, Acoustics

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• 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

  Learning, Guitar, Years

  Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.

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• 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

  Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.

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• Little Walter I would've liked to have played with

  Johnny Winter

  Littles

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• I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at.

  Johnny Winter

  Guitar, Playing Guitar

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

  Johnny Winter

  Real, Artist, Guy

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

  Johnny Winter

  Music, Play, Careers

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• 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

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• I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think

  Johnny Winter

  Thinking, Audience

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• When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

  Johnny Winter

  Night, Age, Clubs

  Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.

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• T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

  Johnny Winter

  Player, Guitar, Gamer

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

  Johnny Winter

  People, Bigs, Late

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• 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

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• Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it

  Johnny Winter

  Love, Play

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