But my big thing was always the blues.

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.

Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.

Just ticking boxes is not the ultimate goal here. Embracing a culture of teamwork and discipline is. And if we recognised the opportunity, the two-minute WHO checklist is just a start.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

And after winter folweth grene May.

it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.

You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]

If is a very big preposition.

For once in your life, here's your miracle, stand up and fight.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.

But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day.