All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.

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 got that first record out, it came out in '47... Then my name began to ring around. I began to take over. From that point, I tell you, Chicago was in my hand, all the more time that those guys had to listen to me.