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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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"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 can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards."
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"I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose."
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"I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play."
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"I usually play disenfranchised youth."
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"For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition."
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"The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different."
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"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement."
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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
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"I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast."
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"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion."
First
"I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was."
Hair
"Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too."
Now
"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
"My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed."
Mom
"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."
Beginning
"My boys told me they'd rather play than practice."
Boys
"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."
Kids
"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 did my first recording. It was called The Champ."
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