If You Can't Get Your

I Call Myself A Blues Singer, But You Ain't Never Heard Me Call Myself A Blues Guitar Man.

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. I Just Wonder Where I Was When The Talent Was Being Given Out, Like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton ... Oh, There's Many More! I Wouldn't Want To Be Like Them, You Understand, But I'd Like To Be Equal, If You Will.

There Was A Lot Of Other Young Players Around At That Time When I Was Coming, But There Was Older People Like Blind Lemon, Which Was One Of My Favorites. I Don't Know, Just Seemed Like Everybody I Heard Could Play Better Than Me.

I Don’t Like To Feel That I Owe Anything. I Like To Feel That I Pay My Own Way, No Free Lunch.

Blues Purists Never Cared For Me. I Don't Worry About It. I Think If It This Way: When I Made 'three O' Clock Blues,' They Were Not There. The People Out There Made The Tune. And Blues Purists Just Wrote About It. The People Is Who I'm Trying To Satisfy.