Gary Clark, Jr. Quotes

All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I love to do, and that's pretty much it.

I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.

I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.

I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.

I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.

You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

I like to see how people interact with each other and I draw from that. I'm inspired by that.

Things that I would say or would like to saw are just easier to sing about and put out there in music.

You're gonna know my name by the end of the night.

You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.

I don't believe in competition, ain't nobody else like me around