I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play 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.

But my big thing was always the blues.

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.

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.

The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

The yeare doth nothing else but open and shut.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

I have three kids, one of each.