63 Quotes by John Lee Hooker

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

It don’t take me no three days to record no album.

Ron Thompson, he’s my main man!

I don’t do nothing I don’t want to do.

Poor people have the blues because they’re poor and hungry. Rich people can’t sleep at night because they’re trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

I don’t think about time. You’re here when you’re here. I think about today, staying in tune.

No matter what you got, the blues is there.

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don’t know why, but he did.

I don’t play a lot of fancy guitar. I don’t want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.