Dr. John

Where Charlie Christian left off, Papoose started a new thing; he was an innovator of the guitar. The things he did during…

— Dr. John

Like the tangled veins of cypress roots that meander this way and that in the swamp, everything in New Orleans is interrelated,…

— Dr. John

I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all…

— Dr. John

The whole Lower Ninth Ward hasn't really recovered, but I feel a good spirit in my heart that something is going on…

— Dr. John

New Orleans cats don't play a lot of solos unless they got something to say. It's not an ego thing like it…

— Dr. John

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

The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences…

— Dr. John

Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was…

— Dr. John

Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm…

— Dr. John

It was the first time I was looking, really, right after the storm, that I saw maybe the amount of devastation that…

— Dr. John

There was a lot of freedom, so bands in those days did not have to play for the public. They played for…

— Dr. John

I hung at the studio. Myself and James Booker and several other musicians, as kids, we just literally hung at the studio,…

— Dr. John

I'd rather have the whole world against me than my own soul.

— Dr. John

I had somebody call and make a joke about it: 'Oh, Buddy Guy won the Grammy - You should have won.' I…

— Dr. John

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown…

— Dr. John

Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.

— Dr. John

See, I dont know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy…

— Dr. John

There was segregated unions, which was a real problem for me because - especially as I was working in the recording scene,…

— Dr. John

See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy…

— Dr. John

That this city has second lines - it's something I'm proud of. When the bands come back from the cemetery, they'll play…

— Dr. John

I strongly believe that Professor Longhair playing just instrumentals would be just as effective as stylized vocals; that's how much I believe…

— Dr. John

When I first started, I didn't know what I was doing. I was such a - like a kid that got into…

— Dr. John

The less said about Inner Space Fungus the better. I've still got the tapes in my house, but I'm afraid to play…

— Dr. John

Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass…

— Dr. John

When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint,…

— Dr. John