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Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.

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

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

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

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

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