The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

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.

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.