Howlin' Wolf

"Every mistake I made is a verse in my greatest song."

"I've been through wars that nobody saw coming, and they happened right in my heart."

"Peace is something you find inside yourself, not something the world gives you."

"I sing to remind people that they ain't alone in their suffering."

"The greatest invention ever made was the ability to turn pain into art."

"I never needed fancy things to feel like a king. I just needed my voice."

"A real friend is somebody who will listen to your blues without trying to fix them."

"Family is what you're born into, but your real family is who stands by you."

"I've seen death close enough to know what life really means."

"Innovation in blues comes from taking your pain and making it new."

"History will remember me not for how I lived, but for what I sang."

"I learned that the most powerful thing you can do is tell the truth when it hurts."

"In my lifetime, I seen a lot of change, and I brought some too."

"The health of your soul is more important than the health of your body."

"I've had adventures in places most people would never go and found songs most people would never sing."

"Your imagination is the only thing in this world that can't be taken from you."

"I've traveled this world, and I learned that human nature is universal."

"You can't control what life throws at you, but you can control how you sing about it."

"The relationships that matter most are the ones built on mutual respect and honesty."

"A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's imagination for?"

"I sing like my life depends on it because at some point, it did."

"You know what I've never been? Boring. And that's because I always brought my whole self."

"The blues is humanity's oldest and truest language."

"I never sold out because I never had anything to sell but my soul, and that wasn't for sale."

"Sometimes the most powerful thing a person can do is simply persist."