Quotes from Howlin' Wolf

I just play blues for fun.

When you ain't got no money, you got the blues.

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

Watch out strange cat people, little red roosters on the prowl. If you see my little red rooster, please drive him home.

Farming's always been my business.

The idea of 'Spoonful' was that it doesn't take a large quantity of anything to be good. If you have a little money when you need it, you're right there in the right spot, that'll buy you a whole lot.

I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine.

I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.

I used to have a radio show. That's how I started foolin' around with recording.

Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class of white people, they're getting tired of it.