Joe Williams
You can't rehearse a blues, darlin'.
There was no concerted effort by any of the companies to build your name per se. People wanted to put you in a category.
The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill.
It's not that you want to sing, it's that you have to sing.
I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.