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

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.

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.

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

It is your sole responsibility to protect every single one of your days on earth with positive thoughts and beliefs.

Liberty does not mean doing as you like, it means liking as you ought, and doing that.(From Slave)

... desperate times required judicious risk-taking.

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day.

What kind of life have you lived little one? Where fair has anything to do with it? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.

Well, isn’t that interesting. (Bubba) I ain’t your science experiment, Bubba. I don’t want to be interesting and I definitely don’t want to be a nubby treat for the zombies. (Nick)