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I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

I was always a closet blues player.

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.