Johnny Winter

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

“The best artists are gone now.”

“The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.”

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

“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.”

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

“I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think.”

“I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.”

“I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.”

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

“Little Walter I would've liked to have played with.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Well, one of the best things is workin' with Muddy.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”