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"In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone."
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"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."
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"I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest."
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"The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest."
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"The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest."
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"In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone."
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"When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs."
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"So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest."
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"I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich."
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"Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
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"But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested."
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"In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone."
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"In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues."
Play
"I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one."
Life
"I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society."
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"When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh."
Help
"If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising."
Time
"The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters."
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"Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family."
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"Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music."
Age
"Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it."
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