David Edwards

“The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.”

“I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.”

“You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuf...”

“You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing......”

“You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.”

“I'd probably sit around the house and get lonesome if I didn't have something to do.”

“I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot of them, and I mash it up, I mash it up into my chords.”

“I don't care how famous a guitarist is, he ain't learned everything. There's always somewhere to go, something to mash up, but he ain't found it yet. You never learn everything on that guita...”

“I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.”

“I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs - 'Stardust', 'Blue Moon', 'Out Cold Again', 'Sophisticated Lady', 'Stars Fell On...”

“The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?”

“The turnaround is when you have a solo in betwixt the verses. You stoppin' to have a solo.”