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"When I got to Chicago I had to find my way."
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"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."

"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."

"After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway."

"Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose."

"I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states."
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"I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect."

"Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do."

"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."

"I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that."
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