The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.

I liked roaming around by myself.

If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

No one is too old to begin again.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.

One of my favorite artists on Deviantart.

If you follow your dreams and spend your life doing what brings you joy, you are more likely to find success

He who disagrees with me in private, call him a fool. He who disagrees with me in public, call him an ambulance.

Jesus said, Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you. For there is nothing hidden that shall not become manifest.