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"You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other."
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"But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places."
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"Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together."
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"The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks."
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"So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too."
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"Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death."
Death
"I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see hoe great it will get!"
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"I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks."
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"What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?"
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"I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death."
Death
"Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing."
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"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
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"At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me."
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"I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player."
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"We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do."
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"As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet."
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"Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes."
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"Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody."
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"I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs."
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"A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop."
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"I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility."
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