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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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"I was exposed to jazz early on."
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"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
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"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
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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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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
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"And I used to listen to a lot of jazz."
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"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."
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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."
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"Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great."
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"But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job."
Job
"Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do."
Family
"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."
Jazz
"But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?"
Opportunity
"Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues."
People
"I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues."
Play
"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
Chicago
"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
Musicians
"I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect."
Opportunity
"Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit."
Being
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