Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture.
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
I don't really have a New Year's resolution to go on a diet or anything like that. I am who I am, and I don't want to be somebody else.
They have to die and their houses should be demolished so that they cannot bear any more terrorists. . . are all our enemies and their blood should be on our hands. This also applies to the mothers of the dead terrorists.
Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be. '
This nation is daring and decent and ready for change.