Joe Bonamassa Quotes

I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

The rule is to try and never play the same thing twice when you have the freedom to do that in the song.

I think all the music I do, which ties together, as far as I'm concerned, is fun and entertaining.

I'm enjoying the hell out of playing straight. It seems to be the case with everybody. We're having a lot more fun. The energy is going into the music now, instead of all the side trips we got into in the '70s.

I wasn't really actively trying to pursue music, so I was really just allowed to create freely without any pressure or outside influences like, 'Oh, I should be making this' or 'I should be collaborating with this person.' It was just kind of like whatever I wanted to do. I was just having fun with it.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.

I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

I like to go to the gym with my girls, practice yoga, try new recipes, bake, have slumber parties, go to the beach, have adventures, book hunt, shop for new records, or road trip somewhere... anything that keeps me laughing and excited about the day, really. I like feeling free to do what I or my friends want to do on our days off.