Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

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.

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.

I love the wheels, I mean steering wheel.

After all, once there was a girl named Lucy who loved her family, old and new.It's not the type of love that ends.

A deal's a deal. Nothing is for nothing. Everything has its price.

I rememberThat I have fallenAmidst the laughterThat surrounds me, and that sometimesIt gets too loud.

No lifetime is a loss if you've leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if you have learned.

I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.

If you talk about change but don't change the reward and recognition system, nothing changes.

God has not changed; and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long and strong to save; as it ever was.

I will never play for the Miami Heat.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.