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.

- John Lee Hooker

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and eve…

- John Lee Hooker

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

- John Lee Hooker

No matter what you got, the blues is there

- John Lee Hooker

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

- John Lee Hooker

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

- John Lee Hooker

I don't do nothin’ I don't want to do.

- John Lee Hooker

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

- John Lee Hooker

I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't have no style. It's a deep feeling-y…

- John Lee Hooker