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.

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.

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.

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

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.

The Lord our God reigns!The Lord our God is righteous!

Let them travel freely, from heart to lips.Feelings they are, don't cut them off at tips.

Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.

It's an unwritten rule - girl friends' boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up.

Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.

Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her

Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.

It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.