Now that I'm gettin old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin but quit playin so hard.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.

Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

I got your strand of hair, I kiss it day and night.

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.