He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing, he played well, he was a person….

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed..

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source..

My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall, and the orchestra was playing. W….

Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite..

Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all….

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.

Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords..

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so..

The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas abo….

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are..

I think Ive done the best I could have done. But I keep wanting to play better, go further. There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many th….

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it lik….

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more..

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll..

A lot of times I say to myself, "I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometimes." I'm not inventing anything that's ….

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow..

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scal….

You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life..

It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music..