I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart.
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.
My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.
Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
I like to listen the blues and some classical.
I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I've grown up and I like to do things other than just swing. But blues can do more than just swing.
I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.
Ten minutes before you go onstage and you begin singing that torchy blues song, you may just be drinking a glass of water and brushing your teeth and doing some deep breathing.
I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.
I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.
I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.
Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.
The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits
If there is a blues song, it just goes in one ear and out the other. But other than that, if it stays with you and when we are all 90, we're going to look back at those songs, and it's going to be emotional. And when someone plays it, and you know it, and you're going to go, "I know that song and I love it. "
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
The blues ain't nothin' but a botheration on your mind.