Slide Guitar Quotes

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

It's nonstop Ben Harper in my apartment.

If there's anybody who knew how to play in a studio, it was Duane Allman.

There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.

Little Walter and Muddy Waters were incredible. And Bo Diddley was doing some great stuff, too.

Growing up in Dallas, my first influences on the guitar were T-Bone Walker and Les Paul. T-Bone taught me how to play lead guitar behind my head and do the splits in 1951 when I was nine.

Is there one blues guy who was the most sophisticated and influential, like Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong in jazz? Was it Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Robert Johnson, or all of them? I think you have to pick all of them.

In terms of tone and style, I've always been influenced by a lot of different players. I love Nick Drake, Mike Bloomfield and Sonic Boom. I like those three a lot!

Blues is a very physical music.

Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.

I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.

I am an old-school guitar player. I'm not an '80s-'90s sort of shredder who plays a million notes a minute. I am way more '60s-'70s kind of style, and I write very '60s-'70s.

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.

I started on acoustic guitar after I heard Leadbelly and Big Bill Broonzy.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

From the first album, we've had songs like 'The Jack' that are blues based. We also did it in 'Ride On,' where we went into the blues.

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn't read a note.

I'm not like other guitar players. In fact, I'm not even like most acoustic players because I use the nylon-string acoustic. I do play steel-string and the electric guitar, too, because I love rock 'n' roll and guitarists like Jimi Hendrix. But my bread and butter has always been the nylon-string.

I don't really play a lot of slide in general, but it was fun getting into that style and exploring it.

John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive

I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.

Most blues guitar players don't concentrate on singing and melodies. And forget about the bridge - the bridge doesn't exist. They go straight for the solo.

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.