Edgar Winter's Quotes
Born: 1946-12-28
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
Biography of Edgar Winter
I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
Tags: Love, Pay, WorkBut 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.
Tags: Forget, Humanity, MomentAs far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
Tags: American, Great, MusicI believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
Tags: American, Blues, MusicI just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs.
Tags: Coming, Fans, LoyaltyI really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
Tags: Book, Famous, RockSo yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
Tags: Blues, Definitely, HeartWe started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.
Tags: Old, Songs, StartedI 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.
Tags: Interested, Listening, NumberI 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.
Tags: Blues, King, StyleI'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.
Tags: Love, Music, PowerThe 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.
Tags: Life, Today, WifeThere'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.
Tags: Cry, Girl, SongsWhen 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.
Tags: Black, Enough, Old