Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.
The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.
The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.