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That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?
Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.
I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
I was messing around with the harmonica ... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
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.
I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.
I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.
I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.
The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.
All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.
If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.
Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice.
Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.
My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right
There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light bill and I couldn't pay my rent and I really had the blues. But today I can pay my rent and I can pay the light bill and I still got the blues. So I must been born with 'em ... That's my religion - the blues is my religion.
I got your strand of hair, I kiss it day and night.
Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.
My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.
The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time ... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.
Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
I got that first record out, it came out in '47 ... Then my name began to ring around. I began to take over. From that point, I tell you, Chicago was in my hand, all the more time that those guys had to listen to me.
I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.
I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?
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