Joe Bonamassa Quotes

The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it has this - the sound has, inside it, has something that projects, and it has multifaceted sound, something that kind of gets lost when you use amplification anyway.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.

To be honest, I don't really like arenas. It's not easy to make the sound good, or to perform in them.

I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.

It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and so they're even more successful in that context than they were on the record.

I'm a fan of real singers. I just gravitate towards that.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.

Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you.

The show isn't about screens, and we don't have any video content or lasers or things blowing up. I want people to come to our show to listen. I want the show to be the music.

Go out and support your local rock n' roll band.

One of the advantages of playing in a club is that even with bass and drums, the atmosphere remains intimate with the audience.

I played with a band in Austin when I was doing 'Friday Night Lights.' It was a blast.

One of my favorite venues is the Bowery Ballroom in New York. I love the room; there's a tiny stage, but I really like the feel of it.

You go to a musical; you are deafened by them, with everything blown up. I remember musicals when they didn't use microphones.

Glasgow Barrowlands is the greatest concert venue in the world.

I love the tone of old, non-amplified, real acoustic fiddles, and Wood Violins are the closest thing I have found to that sound. They play beautifully!

I like live-sounding things.

Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.

For a rock band, I didn't see the point in live albums. To my mind, you've got to be there.

To be honest, the acoustic stuff's my favorite thing to do.