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"If they didn't have ten fights a night, it was a bad night."
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"Yeah, I was a local hero. It was great for me, 'cos I had a full house every night all night seven nights a week for five years that I played. The next five years I just played five days a week, but I still had a full house every night."
"I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights."
"I just play to good people; they seem to like what I do, and the more they like it, the more I play."
"I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it."
"It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any good in the long run. It's a dangerous drug."
"We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything."
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"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."
"I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything."
"Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to."
"The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live."
"I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I."
"Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low."
"Yes, beef is what was for dinner last night. Tonight it will be my dinner, and it will continue to be."
"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."
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