You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

God designed life to be enjoyed by all, but human being turned things around and made it to be endured.

Imagination releases power to achieve goals.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

In every day waits fortune like a seed ready to sprout.

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.

It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.