We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

I'm self-taught. But I finally learned that they was having little shows or night dances or whatever you call them at little juke joints not far from where I lived, and I used to go there. They wouldn't let me play inside, but I could sit outside on the weekends, when it wasn't raining or something.

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.