Quotes from Joe Bonamassa

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

That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.

I don't have any legato skills; I could never figure out how to roll the notes off.

I used to watch MTV when they played music, and discovered Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Healey.

When you've done so many records in 20 years like I have, you're going to have ebbs and flows and go through peaks and valleys.

I went through a period in my life where I didn't have money to buy ramen noodles and peanut butter and jelly, but I also needed to go to the guitar store and buy strings and picks and polish and rags. I couldn't live with myself if I didn't play guitar.

At the end of the day, you really want to make sure that organic music, made by human beings, at least has a voice.

I'm not sure when I first heard about Beth Hart. I do remember seeing her on various TV shows. I think I'd seen her on 'Conan O'Brien' or whatever. And it seemed that whenever we'd tour Europe, our paths would cross.

I think what I do really well is that I can 'chameleon' myself into many styles at a very fast pace, sometimes in the same verse of a song.

I've always been a big fan of taking old songs and completely turning them on their head. Having no adherence to the fine tradition of the original version. Rearranging them and taking a different approach to them.

The first thing you realise very quickly when you decide to do an acoustic version of an electric song is your solo either becomes either very truncated, very different, or non-existent, because even if you play a clean solo, it's different with the Kryptonite... with the acoustic.

I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.