If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage just listen...
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said...
Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between...
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination...
I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with...
