The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

I liked roaming around by myself.

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

His sound was stunning -- it was the blues, it was R&B, it was gospel, it was swing -- it was all the stuff I was listening to before that but rolled into one amazing, soulful thing.