David Edwards
David Edwards
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth28 June 1915
CountryUnited States of America
care famous found guitar guitarist learn learned somewhere
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.
blues lonesome people sung verses
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?
alone bad
I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.
blues delta dirty left people sad shame wide women
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.
robert
I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.
watched whenever
I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it.
people sung verses
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?
blues good man people played plays stack supposed top
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.
home
I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.
dead god raise ready
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!
pick playing time
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.
gave knew people
When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.
fingers good learn
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.
cook sleep stay sun until
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.