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

Being a blues singer is like being black two times.

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

I don't do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That's why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.