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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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"I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa."
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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"
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"All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in."
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"Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni."
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"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile."
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"No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it."
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"Want to play baseball?' she asked. Shane's eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. "What?' "First base,' she said. "You're already there.' "I'm not running the bases.' "Well, you could at least steal second.' "Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you've gone and ruined it."
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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 don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it."
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"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."
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"My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed."
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"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."
Kids
"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion."
First
"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."
Play
"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."
Sound
"I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell."
Son
"I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was."
Hair
"People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio."
People
"Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too."
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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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