The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

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 guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.

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.

If you don't REALLY miss someone, it's because you never REALLY connected very deeply with them.

If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange

Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.

Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want. And whatever you do, don't give them new features just because your competitors have them!

Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by who escape death.

I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.

Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.

There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.

I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.