When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.

They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!

When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.

Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.

It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.

Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing — a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.

It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.

Believe it or not, there are twice as many eyebrows in the world as there are people.