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. – Johnny Winter
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. – Johnny Winter
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. – Johnny Winter
When I started workin’ with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin’ the blues. – Johnny Winter
I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12. – Johnny Winter
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter… and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record. – Johnny Winter
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. – Johnny Winter
I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues. – 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. – Johnny Winter
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. – Johnny Winter
