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If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

The blues is life itself.

The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together.

The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.

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.

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

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.