I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.
Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.
I still like to play the blues more than anything else.
You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
The blues is life itself.
So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.
Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.
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