Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.
You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
I've always wanted to visit [Washington]. The Smithsonian has some fantastic archival material on blues music, which I'm really into. There's a ton of stuff I want to do there. but it just never happened.
I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.
If you don't live it, you don't believe it.
The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.
I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.
In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.