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"That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through."
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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."
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"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."
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"I've been performing on stage since I was six years old."
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"I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift."
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"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."
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"I started skating when I was six years old."
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"I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone."
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"I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do."
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"If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket."
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"Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far."
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"I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing."
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"Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues."
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"My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it."
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"You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?"
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"Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice."
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"Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you."
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