Bukka White

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

Anyone who doesn’t give [his debut album, The College Dropout] a perfect score is lowering the integrity of the magazine

The audience, they’re not professionals. They just love music. It isn’t necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

If you follow your passions, you’ll never work a day in your life.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

I think you have to leave a lot to the imagination!

A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination.

If you take the time and your talent is real, it will last.

Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it.

I play as I feel.

Living is easy with eyes closed.

Jazz without the Blues is like BBQ without the sauce.

There is a time where you’re beyond yourself, better than your technique, better than your usual ideas.

It’s not what you do, but the way you’re doing it and in the end that’s all that we have.