I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!

When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.

Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.

It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.

Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

An optimist sees a failure as an opportunity to excel, but a pessimist sees a failure as an opportunity to quit.

Make your failure the stepping-stone for success.

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.

I try my best to be extremely disciplined about my diet.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

Truth is more than a mental exercise.