I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?
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.
My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right.
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.
The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.
The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.
There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm 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.
You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?
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