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John Lee Hooker

"I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song."

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"I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song."

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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

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"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

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"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."

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"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

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"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

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"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

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"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

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"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

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Donna Grant

"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

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"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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"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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"The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different."
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"The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning."
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"Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them."
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