No matter what you got, the blues is there

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.

I don't do nothin’ I don't want to do.

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

Humility and brokenness before God is the key to making your body the dwelling place of God

Entrepreneur, make today count but don't let the day count you.

Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.

The portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder and things like that felt really big and important.

Without knowing every single detail in a man's life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.