One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records

Love the one you're with.