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

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.

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.

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

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

Figure out what to do, then take a nap.

Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

Begin to see that life is very, very complex. It is made up of thousands of dimensions of wonder.

The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.

If you really want the truth of anything, don't use Wikipedia.

Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a changeless harmony - behind the everchanging.

So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.

I don't ever blink, honestly.