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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

Plant your love and let it grow.

I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.

I know there will be no more tears in heaven.

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.

Early in my childhood, when I was about six or seven, I began to get the feeling that there was something different about me.

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.

All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.

I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

Let it grow, let it grow,
Let it blossom let it flow.
In the sun, the rain, the snow,
Love is lovely, let it grow.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

It's been up to me to inspire me.

Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave ...

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down

And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.

Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

Lately I've been running on faith.

I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.

In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any more if I was dead.

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.

Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.

I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I'm gonna blow you both away.

You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

I am and always will be a blues guitarist

If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.

You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you've got thousands of chicks there.

It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.

I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.

I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.

The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.

I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don't realize how much I love you.

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.

Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don't like yours and you don't like mine.

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

Music became a healer for me.

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.