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

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

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

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

If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that we caught long before. So thanks to them, thanks to all you guys. You opened doors that I don't think would have been opened in my lifetime. When white America started paying attention to the blues - it started opening a lot of doors that had been closed to us.

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