Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing.

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

Maybe if I knew music, I couldn't do what I am doing.

Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.

I’ve been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose.

People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.

The girl was a gypsy before an illness took control of her legs, now she watches in awe the world pass by whilst stillness teaches her about inner strength.

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age really.

The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.

I really am a guy who can be black and white. I don't understand, too much, the gray. And truly I can go from one type of character to another type of character.

I can't raise the bar of others if I haven't raised the bar for myself.

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

To me, I think the core values that will help create the world that we're striving to live in are constant.

A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like woman too.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?