A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

Blues purists never cared for me. I don't worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made 'Three O' Clock Blues,' they were not there. The people out there made the tune. And blues purists just wrote about it. The people is who I'm trying to satisfy.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

A lot of times I say to myself, "I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometimes." I'm not inventing anything that's going to stop cancer or muscular dystrophy or anything, but I like to feel that my time and talent is always there for the people that need it. When someone do say something negative, most times I think about it, but it don't bother me that much.