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

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.

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.

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

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.