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"I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage."
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"Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records."
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"Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common."
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"I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28."
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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 don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message."
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"A lot of churches have not moved with the times."
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"My first solo was in church when I was five."
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"I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot."
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"There is no one true church."
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"On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience."
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"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
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"When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada."
People


"I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time."
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"Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here."
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"If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago."
Singing


"We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues."
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"I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage."
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"I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them."
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"A fox is a wolf who sends flowers."
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"But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now."
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