David Edwards
David Edwards
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth28 June 1915
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
You never learn everything on that guitar neck.
gave knew people
When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.
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.
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!
I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.
home
I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.
I drive every day. I like to gamble.
money nobody running
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.
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.
I knew BB King when he first started out.
Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.
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.