I hung at the studio. Myself and James Booker and several other musicians, as kids, we just literally hung at the studio, hoping somebody would get sick or get hurt and that we'd get to sub for them. — 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
