63 Quotes by John Lee Hooker

My style is all to myself.

I'm even afraid to lay down with you at night, because when you go to bed at night, mean woman, you got an ice pick in your hand.

I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened.

I never build myself us. I let the people do that. I'm the most laid-back person, and I let them build me up. If you ask me, I say, 'I''m just a guy playin' some blues.

That girl has a special talent

Ron Thompson, he's my main man!

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

I wanna get drunk 'til I'm off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.