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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.
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.
I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.
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.
Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.
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.
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.
When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.
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.
