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Luther Allison

"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."

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"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."

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"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."

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"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."

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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."

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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."

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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."

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"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."

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"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."

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"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."

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"I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."

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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."

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"Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do."
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"But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?"
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"I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues."
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"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
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"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
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"Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit."
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"I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company."
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"What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me."
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"Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s."
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"We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States."
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