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

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

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.

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

I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.

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

Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.