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"Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family."
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"If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising."
"I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so."
"Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it."
"In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues."
"In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone."
"I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one."
"I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do."
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