American - Musician | June 28, 1915 - August 29, 2011
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
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I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.
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I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.
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I didn't come out until 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening. Sleep all day, sleep and cook and eat, stay in the house. That sun is hot, anyway. It ain't right out there.
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You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.
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When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.
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I knew BB King when he first started out.
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I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.
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I drive every day. I like to gamble.
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When I was young, I was everywhere.
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I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it.
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You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.
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