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.

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.

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

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

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

When you always want the next thing, every human being becomes a means to an end.

But even though there were plenty of teeth in the grin, there was no heart.

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

I think I've been rather reasonable about this whole situation." "How do you figure?" "They are still breathing, aren't they?

A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

There are real issues going on in just about any movie that's got fun elements to it.

You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.