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"People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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"Give light and people will find the way."
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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."
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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
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"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."
Beginning
"People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio."
People
"My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed."
Mom
"Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too."
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"I did my first recording. It was called The Champ."
First
"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."
Kids
"My boys told me they'd rather play than practice."
Boys
"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion."
First
"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."
Play
"And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find."
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