Do not pick up the pen unless you understand how heavy it is, and how long you may carry it for.
The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.
The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.
The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding.
A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.
The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues.
I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.
Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then.
I have learned over the years that the nicest thing I can do is to just say to myself, "Good Morning Darling, I love you; we're going to have a really great day today. "
The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected.