Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.

Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

But my big thing was always the blues.

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

Maxim 18: If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.