Creativity Quote by Mick Taylor

There is a very 70s-rock shrug in Mick Taylor's line: a half-joke that also exposes how identity talk can feel like a trap when it collides with celebrity, race, and the hunger for neat origin stories. "Maybe" and "or something" do most of the work. They signal a performer refusing the role of amateur genealogist, ducking the expectation that every public figure must have a crisp narrative about where they "come from" in the political, not just familial, sense.

The specific intent reads as deflection with a wink. Asked, presumably, about roots, influence, or some perceived connection to Black music, Taylor answers by widening the frame so absurdly that it becomes unanswerable: go back far enough and who doesn't have a tangled map? But the subtext is more pointed. British rock, especially the blues-rock lane Taylor inhabited, has long been built on intense admiration for African American forms alongside an uneasy record of appropriation, credit, and profit. The line skirts that controversy by dissolving it into genetics, as if musical inheritance could be settled by DNA rather than history and economics.

It also captures a generational posture: musicians of Taylor's era often treated the blues as a kind of shared language they "found", not a tradition shaped by segregation, exploitation, and specific communities. His "I've got no idea" is disarming honesty, but it's also a dodge - the comfort of not knowing, spoken from a place where not knowing rarely carries consequences.