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"I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell."
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"I have amply provided for my son during my lifetime."
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"I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy."
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"You know, he likes me because I'm his son. I have to go long and far to find someone who knows me just as me, rather than me the songwriter or whatever."
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"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."
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"Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879."
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"No, my son's a songwriter and he does that."
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"My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion."
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"My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness."
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"My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names."
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"I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season."
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"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."
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"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."
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"And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find."
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"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."
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"Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too."
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"I did my first recording. It was called The Champ."
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"I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell."
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"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion."
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"People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio."
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"My boys told me they'd rather play than practice."
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