Musician Quotes

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.

I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.

I got tired of playing other people's songs.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer.

Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.

At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder.

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.

I'm playin' the music I like.

I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

I just have a lot off different influences.

I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.

I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.