” I don’t care how famous a guitarist is, he ain’t learned everything. There’s always somewhere to go, something to mash up, but he ain’t found it yet. You never learn everything on that guitar neck. “
” The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It’s a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you. “
” You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing – it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a story… The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing… what they all went through. It’s not just a song, see? “
” You play a ‘lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain’t dead but I’m just supposed to be’ blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that’s what rock n’ roll did with it. So blues ain’t going nowhere. Ain’t goin’ nowhere. “
” The turnaround is when you have a solo in betwixt the verses. You stoppin’ to have a solo. “
” I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues. “
” You don’t have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don’t – you’re working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord. “
” When I was young, I was everywhere. “
” You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing – it was a feeling. “
” You never learn everything on that guitar neck. “
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