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"OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him."
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"I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read."
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"Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget."
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"When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is."
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"I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle."
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"I try and write honestly about what I see around me now."
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"The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85."
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"I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20."
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"Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage."
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"Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!"
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"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."
Beginning
"My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed."
Mom
"Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too."
Now
"I did my first recording. It was called The Champ."
First
"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."
Kids
"My boys told me they'd rather play than practice."
Boys
"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion."
First
"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."
Play
"And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find."
Sound
"I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell."
Son
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