John Lee Hooker quotes
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“The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .”
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“Well I ain't seen my baby since I don't know when, I've been drinking bourbon whiskey, scotch and gin Gonna get high man I'm gonna get loose, Need me a triple shot of that juice Gonna get drunk don't you have no fear I want one bourbon, one scotch and one beer One bourbon, one scotch, one beer.”
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“I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.”
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“Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.”
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“They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.”
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“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.”
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“I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.”
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“I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened.”
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“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 HookerSource : Song: Mean Mean Woman, Album: Simply the Truth
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“I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.”
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“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.”
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“I am a happy man. I've had a good life.”
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“I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.”
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“I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.”
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“I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.”
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“I wanna get drunk 'til I'm off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.”
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“Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.”
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“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.”
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“No matter what you got, the blues is there”
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“I don't do nothin’ I don't want to do.”
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“Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.”
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“When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.”
-- John Lee HookerSource : "John Lee Hooker: 'Soul to soul'" by David Holzel, www.cnn.com. November 13, 2000.
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“It don't take me no three days to record no album.”
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“The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.”
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“All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.”
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“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.”
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“I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.”
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“But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.”
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