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Now that I’m gettin old enough to get some money, I’d like to have some money. I don’t get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin but quit playin so hard.

My grandmother, she say I shouldn’t be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I’m going do this, I’m going do it. And she got where she didn’t bother me about it.

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.

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn’t exactly know it, but I just didn’t like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn’t play ball too good – I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn’t preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.

He took my music, but he gave me my name.

Man, you don’t know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn’t have nothing to eat. We didn’t have an apple, we didn’t have an orange, we didn’t have a cake, we didn’t have nothing.

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.

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

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

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can’t you hear it in my voice?

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

Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man’s street.

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

Going to Chicago was like going out of the world...

Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues – the blues we used to have when we had no money.

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.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

If you got something you don’t want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.

Ain’t nobody’s business, if I bark like a dog.

I went down to my baby’s house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.

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

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

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

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.