We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

Only the Truth of God shall set you free from every falsehood.

The blazing fire burns to light.

We carry secrets under our skin like shrapnel. Our surface wounds heal, but the damage festers underneath while we worry what tiny pieces will work their way to the surface for the world to see.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

When you look at pictures of me, the longer my hair is, the longer my facial hair is, that's just the longer I haven't gotten a job.

The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.

Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.