Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.

Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.