Howlin' Wolf

"Life is the best teacher if you're willing to learn from it."

"You can't sing about pain unless you've felt it deep in your bones."

"I believe in second chances because I've needed them myself."

"The world tries to break you, but if you got music in your soul, you'll always come back."

"What you do in private is what defines your character, not what you do on stage."

"I've known rich men with empty hearts and poor men with kingdoms inside them."

"Blues is just life with a rhythm and a reason."

"Every note I sing is a prayer I'm too tired to say any other way."

"You want to know what real power is? It's making people feel what you feel."

"Injustice is what put the growl in my voice."

"I never needed anybody's permission to be myself."

"The hardest part about surviving is figuring out how to live with what you've survived."

"Music is the only language that don't need translating."

"I've had more heartbreak than most people got breaths, and it's all in my songs."

"A man who's too afraid to fail is already dead inside."

"The blues is gratitude in disguise. You're grateful you lived long enough to sing about it."

"I worked harder than most men ever will, and I'm still working."

"Dreams is all some folks got, and I wouldn't take that from nobody."

"You can't judge a man by what he's got. Judge him by what he's given."

"I've learned that the smallest gesture of kindness can change a whole person's day."

"Life taught me that tomorrow ain't guaranteed, so you best live today right."

"There's beauty in struggle if you're looking for it in the right places."

"I sing for the people in the back who ain't got nobody else to speak for them."

"When you're at the bottom, there's nowhere to go but up."

"The blues ain't sad music. It's honest music."

"I never ran from my demons. I learned to dance with them."

"You got to fall before you can learn to fly."

"What don't kill you makes you stronger, but it sure makes you wiser first."

"I believe in the power of a good story told with conviction."

"Loneliness is just the blues' way of making you listen to yourself."