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"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
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"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
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"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
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"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets."
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"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."
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"I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston."
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"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
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"I was knocked out by the show, Chicago."
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"In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics."
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"I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days."
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"I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered."
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"Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do."
Family
"But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?"
Opportunity
"I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues."
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"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
Chicago
"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
Musicians
"Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit."
Being
"I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company."
Music
"What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me."
Music
"Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s."
Europe
"We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States."
Europe
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