"People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio"
"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion"
"Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too"
"I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys"
"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns"
"I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was"
"Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after"
"Ninety-five percent of my audience was white"
"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning"
"My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed"
"My boys told me they'd rather play than practice"
"I did my first recording. It was called The Champ"
"I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell"
"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad"
"And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find"
"All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white"
