Otis Rush quotes
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“Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.”
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“A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.”
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“Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.”
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“I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.”
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“I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.”
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“I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.”
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“Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.”
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“I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.”
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“I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.”
Source : A.S. King (2010). “Please Ignore Vera Dietz”, p.29, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.”
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“I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.”
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“If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.”
Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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“feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal”
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“For something to hurt that bad, and feel so good, it's just inexplicable.”
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“ADHD isn't a bad thing, and you shouldn't feel different from those without ADHD.”
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