If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues

Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

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