In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was 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.

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

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.