A biography for Joe Bonamassahasn’t been written yet.
“All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.”
“A guitar is a guitar. Whether it was made yesterday or 51 years ago, if it's good, it will stand the test of time.”
“Sometimes you have to blame yourself before you can blame others.”
“There was a rumour that I was buying Gibson. It circulated around the Internet... And I just go, 'How well off do you think I am?' I play blues-rock for a living. It's like a vow of poverty.”
“I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.”
“A great solo is one that's so frail that it actually teeters on the edge of falling apart, but doesn't.”
“To sell out London's Hammersmith Apollo is amazing. Selling it out for two nights? Even better.”
“That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.”
“I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.”
“I love to collect guitars made in the 1950s. I like preserving and playing them.”
“I'm not one of those people that has to share personal experiences. That's not really the kind of writer I am. I'm a very private person to begin with.”
“Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz.”
“I've never been universally loved from the beginning.”
“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.”
“When you think blues, you think BB King. Even a young kid can look at a picture of BB King and say, 'the blues.' The man is more than a musician. He's a monument.”
“I'm honored people think enough of my playing to chase my sound. Hell, I chase other players' tones all the time.”
“If we got into a time machine and went back to the 1700s, classical and baroque music would have been the equivalent of Beyonce and Jay-Z.”
“Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.”
“Greece is so beautiful and inspiring.”
“If you keep working hard and not take 'no' for an answer, you achieve.”