Orianthi Quotes

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

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 think you can hear the Delta blues thing in something like the intro to 'Heaven in This Hell,' which has that down-home acoustic riff.

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.

I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.

I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

Skip James, for me, is the meaning of the blues.

I am trying to build the biggest callus possible on my first finger so I can do one-finger bends and vibrato like B.B. King.

I heard Robert Johnson way before I heard about Eric Clapton.

I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17.

It's so satisfying as a guitar player to play stuff that's related to the blues.

You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock and roll you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues.

Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record.

I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues