I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
It's tough being out there doing what I'm doing in what they call a man's world.
It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.
Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems dont belong to my fans. I dont put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.
Something magic happens when I get to a club or get on stage.
I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B. B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas and he would play the blues.
Hey bartender, hey man, look here. Give us one more, two more, three more glasses of beer.
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.