A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else..

I see you watching me like a hawk. I don't mind about the things you talk. But if you touch me something's got to give. I live the life I love and I ….

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blu….

Mose Allison is a beautiful musician..

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future..

People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be a fact or it wouldn't b….

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music..

Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he w….

According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of ma….

The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, ….

The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity.….

It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul..

I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you..

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning..

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits..

I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old..