There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done..

Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musica….

I'm self-taught. But I finally learned that they was having little shows or night dances or whatever you call them at little juke joints not far from….

I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch..

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.

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

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it..

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die..

Being a blues singer is like being black two times..

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

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived I probab….

I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family liked everyone else but them. That hurts, and that's as deep a hurt as ….

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

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going..

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

I don't do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That's why when I see people today and th….

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence..

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

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

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….