He took my music, but he gave me my name.
Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?
People should hear the pure blues - the # blues we used to have when we had no money.
Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.
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.