Edgar Winter quotes

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together. (Edgar Winter)
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. View quote
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I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it. View quote
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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. View quote
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. View quote
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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. View quote
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So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart. View quote
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I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm. View quote
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I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old. View quote
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We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs. View quote
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled. (Edgar Winter)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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