If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.
People should hear the pure blues - the # blues we used to have when we had no money.
Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.
I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.
You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?