All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.

Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

to be right in the wrong direction may be wrong

Just about every available female--and some unavailable--seemed to think the way to his heart was through his blood sugar levels.

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.

I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.

Cats, for the most part, seem indifferent to human activities that do not revolve around their needs and wants. They all but roll their eyes at the owners who expect their cats to do things for them.

If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.

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