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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."
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"I get to play a killer next."
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"I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person."
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"Lyricists play with words."
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"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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"I never play without my cape."
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"That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed."
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"I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore."
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"Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process."
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"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."
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"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
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"When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh."
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"Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music."
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"I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz."
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"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
"The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters."
Development
"The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality."
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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."
Interest
"I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do."
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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."
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"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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