Joe Bonamassa Quotes

I couldn't imagine being in Slipknot and not going to Peru or Argentina or Moscow or St. Petersburg.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

We did eight gigs in super-stadiums, all the biggest joints - L.A. Coliseum, Oakland Coliseum, Shea Stadium.

I want to play more festivals.

I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

I was a huge fan of Damien Rice - and I am a huge fan still!

It's nonstop Ben Harper in my apartment.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time.

I really love listening to Hozier. He's great.

Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.

While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

Go back to the very beginning, when we first started playing in local pubs. We used to play Chuck Berry covers. Every now and then, we'd slip in one of our own songs, and we found that we were getting away with it - nobody seemed to know these were original tracks.

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.

I'd love to have Jack White up. I think he's just a phenomenal guitar player. I'd love to see him play up close because he's got a killer voice, and he's a great lead player, too. That would be exciting to me.

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

I like the wildness of Buddy Guy.

As a journeyman singer, I have to go to where the work is.

I'll tell you, what the world doesn't need is another Joe Bonamassa DVD.

I wanna get the streets riled back up. I wanna get super tours and bookings.

We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.

The touring business is obviously critical to selling records, building fan bases, selling T-shirts, fulfilling sponsorship commitments.