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"I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again."
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"There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years."
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"I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in."
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"I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor."
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"I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years."
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"It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it."
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"I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written."
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"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy."
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"I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years."
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"You can only hold your stomach in for so many years."
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"I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor."
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"From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto."
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"I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever."
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"Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat."
Time
"Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them."
Folk
"I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed."
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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
Musicians
"When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long."
People
"When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some."
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"I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again."
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"Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people."
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