When I Was Young, I Didn't Play

I Was Glad To See Other Blues Guitarists Like Albert King Have Crossover Successes Like Me. We Played In The Same Places Like The Whisky And The Filmore. When Albert Made His Guitar Cry, He Could Cut You So Deep!

God Made Blues Right After He Made Woman.

I've Always Liked Ladies All My Life. I Guess It Started With My Mom. So Every Time I Saw A Pretty Lady, I Thought, She's Pretty.

Blues Purists Never Cared For Me. I Don't Worry About It. I Think If It This Way: When I Made 'three O' Clock Blues,' They Were Not There. The People Out There Made The Tune. And Blues Purists Just Wrote About It. The People Is Who I'm Trying To Satisfy.

I Think Ive Done The Best I Could Have Done. But I Keep Wanting To Play Better, Go Further. There Are So Many Sounds I Still Want To Make, So Many Things I Havent Yet Done. When I Was Younger I Thought Maybe Id Reached That Peak. But Im 86 Now, And If I Make It Through To Next Month, Ill Be 87. And Now I Know It Can Never Be Perfect, It Can Never Be Exactly What It Should Be, So You Got To Keep Going Further, Getting Better.