David Edwards Quotes & Sayings
27 most famous David Edwards quotes and sayings (musician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?”
“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 shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.”
“I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.”
“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 Alabama', a lot of different stuff.”
“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 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 guitar neck.”
“The turnaround is when you have a solo in betwixt the verses. You stoppin' to have a solo.”
“I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.”
“I'd probably sit around the house and get lonesome if I didn't have something to do.”
“I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it.”
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