The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.
God made Blues right after he made woman.
There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
The blues are three L’s – living, loving and hopefully, laughing.
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.
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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.
It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.