I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.

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.

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.

I have a terrible memory

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place

Experience is a master teacher, even when it’s not our own.

There is nothing like the love or a child.

It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.

She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.

Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.