A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine.

Watch out strange cat people, little red roosters on the prowl. If you see my little red rooster, please drive him home.

I eat more chicken any man ever seen.

Ain't no better place than the US. This is a free enterprise system. You can get whatever you want in the US.

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role, But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old.

Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.

We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.