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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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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
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"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going."
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"So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there."
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"Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do."
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"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."
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"The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending."
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"All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity."
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"Old is always fifteen years from now."
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"I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits."
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"I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr."
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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."
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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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"There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues."
Time


"I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time."
Time


"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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"There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through."
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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."
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"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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