Top 25 John Lee Hooker Quotes (2024 Update)

John Lee Hooker Quote: “I don’t like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don’t have no style. It’s a deep feeling-you just can’t stop listening to that sad blues sound. My sound.”

1. “I don’t like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don’t have no style. It’s a deep feeling-you just can’t stop listening to that sad blues sound. My sound.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.”

2. “The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “When I die, they’ll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.”

4. “When I die, they’ll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “I am a happy man. I’ve had a good life.”

5. “I am a happy man. I’ve had a good life.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “I wanna get drunk ’til I’m off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.”

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

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “I don’t think about time. You’re here when you’re here. I think about today, staying in tune.”

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

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “It don’t take me no three days to record no album.”

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

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “Ron Thompson, he’s my main man!”

9. “Ron Thompson, he’s my main man!”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “I don’t do nothing I don’t want to do.”

11. “I don’t do nothing I don’t want to do.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “My style is all to myself.”

14. “My style is all to myself.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “No matter what you got, the blues is there.”

15. “No matter what you got, the blues is there.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.”

16. “I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “That girl has a special talent.”

17. “That girl has a special talent.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.”

18. “The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.”

19. “I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “I’ve got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don’t have to do nothing I don’t want to.”

20. “I’ve got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don’t have to do nothing I don’t want to.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “The one thing the blues don’t get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people’s throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.”

21. “The one thing the blues don’t get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people’s throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “But I don’t want to do no big tours or go out on the road.”

22. “But I don’t want to do no big tours or go out on the road.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “I do benefits. I do them all the time. There’s so many people out there that needs help that I can’t say I won’t help them.”

24. “I do benefits. I do them all the time. There’s so many people out there that needs help that I can’t say I won’t help them.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I’ve got a song.”

25. “I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I’ve got a song.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.”

26. “Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.”

— John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Quote: “I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.”

27. “I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.”

— John Lee Hooker

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