There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.
The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.
Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.
A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.
We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.
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.
I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.
I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
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.
