I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.

I don't do nothin’ I don't want to do.

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

No matter what you got, the blues is there

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

Expect poison from the standing water.

When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.

There is never a bad joke, it's adressing to a wrong audience that makes it look bad!

We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.

You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.

Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent, two, or no children at all.

What can you say about Guy's cooking that hasn't been printed on a packet of cigarettes?