Words matter. These are the best Edgar Winter Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
As far as I’m concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.
So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
There’s a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don’t know what the title of it is.
But when I played Woodstock, I’ll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I’ll never forget.
I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs.
I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
When I was first starting out, you’d have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it would always feed back and you could never turn it up loud enough to be heard and I would beat my hands black and blue and bloody.
I played Woodstock in ’69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn’t really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn’t really have that much interest in pop music.
I’ve always considered myself something of a musical rebel.
I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.
The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don’t know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.
I’m primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly ‘Frankenstein’ had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there’s one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
I hadn’t realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
I guess that I’m primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of ‘Frankenstein’ being such a heavy song – you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.