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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."
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"Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family."
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"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."
Living
"Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music."
Age
"If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising."
Time
"When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh."
Help
"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."
Musicians
"I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do."
People
"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."
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"I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society."
Legal
"The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters."
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"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."
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"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."
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"Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me."
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"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."
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"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."
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"I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio."
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"I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player."
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"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"
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"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."
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"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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