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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.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

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.

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.

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.

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.