One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art

David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.

Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

Love the one you're with.

But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.

I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends

Dowling Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

The temple is a place of holiness. It is the most sacred and holy place on earth and should be treated with the greatest degree of reverence and respect.

Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

You don’t need to worry any more or punish yourself about food. It is totally counterproducti ve to stress yourself out about weight loss because that same stress causes you to put weight on.

Don't focus on what I'm wearing. Focus on what's coming out of my face.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

You've got to have fun playing. It bothers me when players don't seem to be enjoying themselves, even when they play an incredible improvisation.