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"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."
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"Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me."
"I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch."
"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
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"Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing."
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"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."
"I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to."
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"I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that."
"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
"I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company."
"But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?"
"But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch."
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