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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."
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"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."
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"A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it."
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"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
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"Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music."
Age
"When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh."
Help
"If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising."
Time
"I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so."
Living
"Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it."
Musicians
"In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues."
Play
"In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone."
Interest
"I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one."
Life
"I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do."
People
"The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters."
Development
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