Quotes on Jazz And Blues

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling and understanding. The blues can be about anything pertaining to the facts of life. The blues call on God as much as a spiritual song do.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.