I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

Ain't no better place than the US. This is a free enterprise system. You can get whatever you want in the US.

When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine.

I don't have anything to say about the guy [Muddy Waters], you know. Treat me all right. But I can this: they are jealous hearted, you know. Are jealous hearted musicians, you know. See, if you can't do like your songs, get kinda jealous of you. Like you, like they think you better than them and all that, but I don't fool with those kind of peoples, you know. I ain't got the time.

A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

I eat more chicken any man ever seen.