I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.

Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.

Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday.

The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever.

A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day.