I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West individual immortality is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.

To be honest with you, I (would) much rather play basketball and not be famous.

What power would Hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?

God has more for you in your future than you could ever dream of in your present and he's already seen you in it.

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen.

Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.