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John Lee Hooker

"I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again."

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"I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again."

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Donna Grant

"Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back."

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Donna Grant

"We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here."

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Donna Grant

"I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months."

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Donna Grant

"We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape."

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Donna Grant

"And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'"

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Donna Grant

"It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down."

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Donna Grant

"I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with."

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Donna Grant

"For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another."

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Donna Grant

"You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!"

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Donna Grant

"Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections."

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John Lee Hooker
"Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it."

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John Lee Hooker
"I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit."

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John Lee Hooker
"The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different."

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John Lee Hooker
"The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning."

Meaning

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John Lee Hooker
"Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em."

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John Lee Hooker
"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 because the blues is really going."

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John Lee Hooker
"I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did."

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John Lee Hooker
"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 and I'm gonna get me some money, too."

Money

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John Lee Hooker
"I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want."

Music

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John Lee Hooker
"All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them."

Life

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