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I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot of them, and I mash it up, I mash it up into my chords.

~David Edwards

Topics: Chords Lot Many Mash Musicians Played Some Something Steal Them Up Want Would

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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

Topics: Always Care Everything Famous Found Go Guitar Guitarist He How Learn Learned Mash Neck Never Something Somewhere Up You

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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.

~David Edwards

Topics: About Big Blues Dead Delta Dirty Left Make People Sad Shame Something Sound Think Who Wide Women You

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I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.

~David Edwards

Topics: Home Joe Left Williams

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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

Topics: Blues Could Doing Feeling Just Like Lonesome Nothing People Play See Song Story Sung Thing Through True True Story Verses Which You

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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

Topics: Down Every Every Time Father Guitar Had He His Little Old Pick Playing Put Round Time Up Years

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Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.

~David Edwards

Topics: Anywhere Blues Get Going Never Nowhere Slow

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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

Topics: Across Blues Dead Did Dirty Goin Going Just Lonesome Make Mama Nowhere Papa Play Rock Rock N Roll Roll Same Sea Shame Shuffle Slow Supposed Take You

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The turnaround is when you have a solo in betwixt the verses. You stoppin' to have a solo.

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Topics: Solo Turnaround Verses You

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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

Topics: Everything Fingers Going Good Got Learn Now One Thing Them Thing Were

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: June 28th, 1915

Died: August 29th, 2011

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