John Lee Hooker Quotes

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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…
• The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.
• No matter what you got, the blues is there
• I don't do nothin’ I don't want to do.
• That girl has a special talent
• When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.
• Ron Thompson, he's my main man!
• I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.
• I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.
• 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…
• It don't take me no three days to record no album.
• The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
• My style is all to myself.
• 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.…
• Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

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