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

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.

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.

Certainly seems it when she half-turns in his arms and he just leans right down into her and kisses and kisses. Oh, how syrupy-slow his kisses are. She could live in those warm, wet pulls.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

When you are in harmonywith yourself, you'll be in harmony with everyone else.

It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.

We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

I'm a little less naive when it comes to relationships.

I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.

He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs.