If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money..

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me..

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But ….

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….

Hard times don't necessarily mean being poor all the time. I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everyb….

I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him [when he was playing] with Little Richard... An….

I've always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she's pretty..

Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe….

There was a lot of other young players around at that time when I was coming, but there was older people like Blind Lemon, which was one of my favori….

When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille..

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 never use that word, retire..

If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that we caught long before. So thanks….

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

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain..

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!.

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' till I got to be a man, but when….

I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do….

We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its p….

The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing..

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