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"Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far."
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"We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types."
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"I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers."
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"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."
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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
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"Old foxes want no tutors."
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"Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma."
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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."
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"All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems."
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"My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it."
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"I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory."
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"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."
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"Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues."
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"I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone."
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"You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?"
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"If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket."
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"I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do."
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"Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin' but quit playin' so hard."
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"That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through."
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