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"Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there."
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"The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue."
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"My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town."
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"My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences."
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"Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet."
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"I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it."
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"I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son."
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"Your prodigal son has left again to exorcise some demons."
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"Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die."
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"Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson."
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"Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second."
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"My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it."
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"I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age."
Age

"I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory."
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"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."
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"Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues."
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"I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone."
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"You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?"
Church

"If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket."
People

"I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do."
Car

"Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin' but quit playin' so hard."
Money
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