People should hear the pure blues - the #‎ blues we used to have when we had no money.

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

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

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.

It is a misery to be born a pain to live a trouble to die.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

I never knew the media would be so interested in my personal life.

You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept.

Later, when they were almost asleep he had called out to her. 'Finke?' 'Yeah?' 'We'll make a great team. You plant. I build.

I'm a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?