"I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?"

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"I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?"

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"There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money."

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