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"When I got to Chicago I had to find my way."
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"There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland."
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"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
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"Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee."
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"I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago."
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"The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago."
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"It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters."
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"My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946."
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"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
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"I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops."
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"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
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"But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job."
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"Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do."
Family
"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."
Jazz
"But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour."
Home
"But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?"
Opportunity
"Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues."
People
"I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues."
Play
"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
Chicago
"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
Musicians
"I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect."
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