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

Them older people... they didn't think you could make it in no kind of city. They think if you get in the city-starvation.

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.

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

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

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