All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.

I don't do nothin’ I don't want to do.

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

No matter what you got, the blues is there

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

Adventure is a need.

Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

I've made tough calls and tough times and been held accountability. I think that is the kind of leadership that the American people need now to produce results.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.