Johnny Winter

“I never thought about being a guitar player. I just loved music.”

“I'm not a rock star. I'm a bluesman. I'm just a bluesman.”

“If it wasn't for the blues, I don't know what I'd be doing. It's the only thing that's never let me down.”

“When you've got the blues, you've got nothing to lose.”

“I just want to be remembered as a good blues musician.”

“Rock and roll is blues with a backbeat.”

“The blues is a feeling, you know. It's not just a style of music.”

“I didn't have any friends, so I had to make friends with my guitar.”

“To me, the blues is an honest, pure, and gut-level music.”

“I'm just trying to play the best I can and be true to the music I love.”

“I think the blues will always be around. People will always have problems.”

“My brother Edgar and I were born with albinism. We were legal Caucasians, but we looked like ghosts.”

“It's a good thing I had a music teacher who was willing to break the rules.”

“Slide guitar is just a different way of getting your notes.”

“Muddy Waters was the king of the blues. He was my idol.”