If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.

They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!

When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.

It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.

Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65)

The path to success is not a straight line.

Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy.

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting wines

These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.