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

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

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

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.

The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.

The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.

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.