Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

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.

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.

I hope so, ” grumbled Ian. “I’m going to look for another one of ‘em winged dogs for Mabel.

My confusion will not stand for what I want because I can !!

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman

It was the kind of place you went when your earthly troubles became too much for you and you were looking for a creative way to commit suicide.

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

God must be very great to have created a world that leaves a mystery as to whether he created it.

Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.