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The blues is life itself.

The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. It's not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

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

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

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

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.

But my big thing was always the blues.