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Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.

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For artists like me, I think the times that just say the 80's alone, you didn't have to worry about getting twenty-five thousand Facebook followers. You didn't have to worry about every club, every venue you play, where the venues…

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I've worked with a lot of people and I like to play with people when it's fun, and people that I have fun with independent of music, do you know what I mean? Where you can just joke and kid around, because you can joke and kid around with somebody and when you get in the pressure cooker of the…

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Maybe in my personal life, but as far as my career, I've been offered some humongous things in my career and didn't take them. I look back and think, oh man, well I'd have been well off monetarily wise, but artistic wise I don't know. I'd have to say, personally, in my personal life, yeah, but in my musical life,…

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I'm a firm believer that you learn a hell of a lot more from your failures than you do from your successes.

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Nowadays blues in particular has a wide, wide, wide, wide net of everything that's called blues. I think if somebody's coming to it in the last ten years or whatever, or even fifteen years, what their experience is what is called blues is different from mine. I have to expand my range of what's been called the blues. I think…

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When you are sitting in a room and somebody does something or says something and a thought comes, an idea or a melody -…

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Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.

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My family was into music. My dad was into music down south. My mom and grandmother were into gospel music so there were all…

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Some of the best advice I was given was that me doing a bad version of me is better than me doing a good…

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At the school where I went you were able to check out instruments like you check out a library book, if your parents signed…

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At home in the states, I think there's a tendency in the states to go for the latest, greatest thing. The latest, greatest is…

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Just think about it, be honest, how many groups have you heard of in the last five or six, seven, eight years that you…

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Just immerse yourself in the culture of the music - it will open some doors for you.

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