The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.