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  • That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to hip music - but it's just blues twisted a new way - while I'm playing for the college kid's parents.
    - Joe Bonamassa
  • I used to watch MTV when they played music, and discovered Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Healey.
    - Joe Bonamassa
  • At the end of the day, you really want to make sure that organic music, made by human beings, at least has a voice.
    - Joe Bonamassa
  • If we got into a time machine and went back to the 1700s, classical and baroque music would have been the equivalent of Beyonce and Jay-Z.
    - Joe Bonamassa
  • Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz.
    - Joe Bonamassa
  • At the end of the day, I think having some life experience is helpful to play any kind of music.
    - Joe Bonamassa
  • There's a certain thing when you start getting into your late thirties or early forties where you stop caring. Not to the extent where you stop caring about the music, you just stop caring about what anyone thinks of you, and you just kind of let it go - let the chips fall where they may.
    - Joe Bonamassa
  • British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.
    - Joe Bonamassa
  • Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.
    - Joe Bonamassa
  • If you have a good riff with a vocal as well, then it becomes a devastating song. That's why people love riff-rock: it's the ultimate air guitar music.
    - Joe Bonamassa
  • It doesn't matter if people take the music for free, because you can't illegally download a ticket to a concert.
    - Joe Bonamassa
  • I think great music sells records, and I also think, do you want to be a reality star, or someone that actually has credibility? Because you can't have both.
    - Joe Bonamassa