Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!

What the hell are you doing here? You weren't on the guest list. Hell, you people aren't on anybody's guest list. If you turned up at a funeral, the corpse would walk out on you.

I want to be the best in whatever I do.

I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums.

There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand.

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.