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"You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad."
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"The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument."
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"I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns."
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"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."
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"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
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"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."
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"I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing."
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"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."
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"I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too."
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"An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me."
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"I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time."
Time
"I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them."
Thought
"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
"But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now."
Now
"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."
Music
"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
"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
Applause
"I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage."
Church
"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
"There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through."
Music
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