Joe Bonamassa Quotes

If you go back and listen to the album 'Name' was on, there were a lot of garage songs on it.

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

Country music, like rock or blues, can move over into a lot of different areas.

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks... hardcore... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson.

Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.

Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage. I'm happy to be in that category.

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

Things that excite me are these four different bands: Wire, with a song called 'Champs,' Misfits, with a song called 'Hybrid Moments,' R. Stevie Moore, and Wipers 'Wait A Minute.'

The grunge scene is not what I'm interested in.

I'm always into rock n' roll and indie rock.

There are bands like Imagine Dragon, Grouplove, and fun. who have come along and shifted the way that rock can sound.

I don't think it's changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more rock into country music, then Florida Georgia Line's gonna introduce more dance and more beat-driven stuff into country music. That's just how it's gonna go. So whatever influences you as a kid, you're gonna put in your music.

I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.

My kind of retro-sounding songs, or whatever you want to call them, aren't for everybody.

When you mention Bieber, Lorde, One Direction, I want to be on that list. But at the same time, when you say Lil Uzi Vert, I want my name to pop up, too. I'm kinda in between both. I wanna bring them together and exist.

We were fans of Green Day and Nirvana or whatever, but the bands we really loved were Chicago bands that didn't really sound anything like Alkaline Trio.