Maybe if I knew music, I couldn't do what I am doing.

I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing.

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.

I’ve been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose.

People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

Smoky knickers. Always said you were hot stuff, ” he said. I rolled my eyes and shook my head at the same time. It made me so dizzy that I almost fell over. Men.

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions.

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.