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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."

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"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."

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"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."

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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

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"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."

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"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

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"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."

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"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."

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"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."

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"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

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"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."

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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

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"All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them."
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"I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks."
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"I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues."
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"Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight."
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"I am a happy man. I've had a good life."
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"I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to."
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"Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to."
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"But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road."
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