I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun Studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent. He was a dynamic young boy. His phraseology, his way of looking at a song, was as unique as Sinatra's. I was a tremendous fan, and had Elvis lived, there would have been no end to his inventiveness.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.