John Lee Hooker

When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

No matter what you got, the blues is there