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"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."
"I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society."
"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."
"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."
"I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz."
"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."
"The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality."
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"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
"So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal."
"Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants."
"We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that."
"Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball."
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