Top 29 Quotes by John Lee Hooker

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to.

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.