Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.

My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.

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

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

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.

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

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right