The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

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.

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

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

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!