I ain’t learn everything yet at 95. But I got good fingers, that’s one thing, I got good fingers. If it weren’t for them fingers I wouldn’t be going now. David Edwards Read Quote
I should have been dead 50, 60 years ago. God just wasn’t ready for me. Because I used to raise hell and drink. I’ve had my fun! David Edwards Read Quote
When I was running ’round in America, about 30 years old, I didn’t want no woman. I knowed I could make enough money to take care of myself, but I didn’t want nobody to take care of. David Edwards Read Quote
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. David Edwards Read Quote
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. David Edwards Read Quote
My father had slowed down playing a little… I was ’round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up. David Edwards Read Quote
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? David Edwards Read Quote
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. David Edwards Read Quote
