I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.

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

Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.

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.

I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

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.