It was the first time I was looking, really, right after the storm, that I saw maybe the amount of devastation that had happened in the Lower Ninth Ward. Where my friends lived, which was about six blocks from where… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
Right after Katrina, we did 'Sippiana Hericane.' I was real upset with everything. — Dr. John Copy Share Image
Where Charlie Christian left off, Papoose started a new thing; he was an innovator of the guitar. The things he did during his recording… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
Like the tangled veins of cypress roots that meander this way and that in the swamp, everything in New Orleans is interrelated, wrapped around… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
The whole Lower Ninth Ward hasn't really recovered, but I feel a good spirit in my heart that something is going on - music… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
New Orleans cats don't play a lot of solos unless they got something to say. It's not an ego thing like it is with… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
I think that any of the places that's cut off from money, things come up, what the people have to rely on. — Dr. John Copy Share Image
The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was OK, records… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
It was the first time I was looking, really, right after the storm, that I saw maybe the amount of devastation that had happened… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
There was a lot of freedom, so bands in those days did not have to play for the public. They played for club owners… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
I hung at the studio. Myself and James Booker and several other musicians, as kids, we just literally hung at the studio, hoping somebody… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
I had somebody call and make a joke about it: 'Oh, Buddy Guy won the Grammy - You should have won.' I said, 'No.… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
