If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'

Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.