Quotes from Johnny Winter

Jimi was always at The Scene when he was in New York and we played many times together. He was just everywhere - he went out and jammed everywhere he was.

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.

Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.

I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at.

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.

I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

Well, one of the best things is workin' with Muddy.

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

The best artists are gone now.