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"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."
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"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."
"The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters."
"The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality."
"I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so."
"I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do."
"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 must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one."
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