The Crowds Treat Me Like My Last

I Don't Do Much Recording Anymore, But Before I Really Stopped, I Was Glad To Get Five, Five Cent A Record. That's Why When I See People Today And They Complain About What They Get, And I Picked Cotton For $2.50 A Day.

And As Long As People Have Problems, The Blues Can Never Die.

If It Wasn't For The British Musicians, A Lot Of Us Black Musicians In America Would Still Be Catchin' The Hell That We Caught Long Before. So Thanks To Them, Thanks To All You Guys. You Opened Doors That I Don't Think Would Have Been Opened In My Lifetime. When White America Started Paying Attention To The Blues - It Started Opening A Lot Of Doors That Had Been Closed To Us.

I Remember Elvis As A Young Man Hanging Around The Sun Studios. Even Then, I Knew This Kid Had A Tremendous Talent. He Was A Dynamic Young Boy. His Phraseology, His Way Of Looking At A Song, Was As Unique As Sinatra's. I Was A Tremendous Fan, And Had Elvis Lived, There Would Have Been No End To His Inventiveness.

Jazz Is The Big Brother Of The Blues. If A Guy's Playing Blues Like We Play, He's In High School. When He Starts Playing Jazz It's Like Going On To College, To A School Of Higher Learning.