Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!

When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.

Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.

It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.

Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.

Curiosity can only be called "fear of the unknown" only when you are in your comfort zone.

If you walk just walk. If you sit just sit. But whatever you do don't wobble.

Beauty is a fragile gift.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

I ain't never been nothin but a winner.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.

In the end, our worship is more about what we do than what we say.