Soulful Playing Quotes

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

Stevie Winwood played like I'd never heard anybody play before. It just gave me goose bumps.

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

I prefer a heart player; I prefer someone like a blues player, like Jeff Healey. Jeff Healey I think is tremendous.

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

Everything Paul Kossoff did came from his fingers and went right into the amp. He was his own effects unit.

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.

Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.

It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how his vision communicated itself through his playing, and how, at the end of each piece, he had the sad habit of running one finger over the length of the plaintive keyboard, as though to tear himself forcibly away from his dream.

The equipment doesn't matter, it's the vibe you put into it. If the music sounds good, music sounds good.

If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

A song like 'When The Levee Breaks' has a very simple pattern, but it's hard to give it that feel that my dad gave it.

I found I could speak through the guitar. Because you have the feel of the strings with both hands and it's up against your solar plexus, it's real, and so there's nothing between you and the music.

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

... I'm not conscious of the speed ... it's not my motive ... my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard ... it can get to the point where I don't have control over what I am playing ... I never end the gig until I can't sing anymore

You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.

I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.

Jimi Hendrix was just so fluid. His hands were connected to his soul, you know? His playing was just so emotional. You could feel the fire, you could feel the blues. You could feel the sadness. It's unbelievable.