I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts but I never noticed.

I like to play guitar jam out play the blues go watch movies. I love movies.

The next thing I knew I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

I guess music particularly the blues is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college to a school of higher learning.

Blues are the songs of despair but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny but the more hurtin' the music was the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.