American - Musician | May 8, 1977 -
I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.
Joe Bonamassa
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It's good to see young kids getting into the blues.
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When I write for an album, I'll always have about 30 different types of instrument around me. I set them up in a small room with my computer running GarageBand, which is always set to record.
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If you have a good riff with a vocal as well, then it becomes a devastating song. That's why people love riff-rock: it's the ultimate air guitar music.
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When you're 12 and, you know, slightly overweight and - for lack of a better word - white, and you're playing blues, you get a lot of press.
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The blues, the way it's interpreted, is always a product of your environment, and so it's almost like food. You know, it's like you use the ingredients, and you use your life experiences that you have.
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I work well under pressure.
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It doesn't matter if people take the music for free, because you can't illegally download a ticket to a concert.
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I think great music sells records, and I also think, do you want to be a reality star, or someone that actually has credibility? Because you can't have both.
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I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.
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Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder, heavier, and faster than the traditional blues that I was listening to.
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I love to collect guitars made in the 1950s. I like preserving and playing them.
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