Luther Allison Quotes (32 Quotes)


    Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.

    What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me.

    I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.


    I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.


    In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.

    But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?

    But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.

    I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

    I went in '76, '78, '79, and I met people there who believed and knew a lot more about Luther Allison than the people in the States.

    I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

    So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on.

    Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

    I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

    Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.

    I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.

    But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.



    Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do.

    But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour.

    In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

    Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s.


    Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.

    I want people to recognize Luther Allison when I play.

    I went from a champion... it became very hard in the beginning, because I gave up everything in the States, to take this chance.

    We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States.


    But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

    The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

    I focused on how these people became how they were.


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