Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

People should hear the pure blues - the #‎ blues we used to have when we had no money.

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.

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

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

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.