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John Lee Hooker

"I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit."

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"I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit."

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Donna Grant

"I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none."

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Donna Grant

"We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe."

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Donna Grant

"Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign."

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Donna Grant

"Cities are the greatest creations of humanity."

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Donna Grant

"Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn't necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that's that."

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Donna Grant

"I love to watch cities wake up, and Paris wakes up more abruptly, more startlingly, than any place I know."

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Donna Grant

"I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit."

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Donna Grant

"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile."

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Donna Grant

"Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities."

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Donna Grant

"Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia."

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John Lee Hooker
"Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it."

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John Lee Hooker
"I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit."

Cities

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John Lee Hooker
"The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different."

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John Lee Hooker
"The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning."

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John Lee Hooker
"Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em."

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John Lee Hooker
"If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going."

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John Lee Hooker
"I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did."

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John Lee Hooker
"They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too."

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John Lee Hooker
"I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want."

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John Lee Hooker
"All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them."

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