“I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.”

Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don’t live it you don’t have it.

Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!

When you got your hand in the lion’s mouth, don’t do nothin’ til you get it out.

Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.

In the silence, hear what can’t be heard.

The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard

I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are only able to create because they suffer immensely in their own lives. What a bunch of bullshit.

When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.