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James Brown

"I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated."

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"I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated."

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Akiroq Brost

"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."

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Akiroq Brost

"I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards."

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Akiroq Brost

"I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose."

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Akiroq Brost

"I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play."

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Akiroq Brost

"I usually play disenfranchised youth."

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Akiroq Brost

"For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition."

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Akiroq Brost

"The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different."

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Akiroq Brost

"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement."

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Akiroq Brost

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."

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Akiroq Brost

"I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast."

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