Playing Guitar Is Like Telling The Truth.

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 To Them, Thanks To All You Guys. You Opened Doors That I Don't Think Would Have Been Opened In My Lifetime. When White America Started Paying Attention To The Blues - It Started Opening A Lot Of Doors That Had Been Closed To Us.

Blues Purists Never Cared For Me. I Don't Worry About It. I Think If It This Way: When I Made 'three O' Clock Blues,' They Were Not There. The People Out There Made The Tune. And Blues Purists Just Wrote About It. The People Is Who I'm Trying To Satisfy.

I Gave You Seven Children, But Now You Want To Give Them Back.

When You Don't Have Much Money, You Worry That They'll Just Put You In The Ground Someplace And Your Loved Ones Won't Know Where You Are.

I Liked Blues From The Time My Mother Used To Take Me To Church. I Started To Listen To Gospel Music, So I Liked That. But I Had An Aunt At That Time, My Mother's Aunt, Who Bought Records By People Like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson And A Few Others.