When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.