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"But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along."
"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
"The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist."
"I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit."
"Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville."
"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"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."
"I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues."
"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."
"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."
"The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record."
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