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• I never had the blues; the blues always had me.
• When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.
• Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
• That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'
• When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.
• I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
• I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years…
• Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more…
• I only write about what I do, what happens to me.
• My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.
• I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.
• Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.

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