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John Lee Hooker

"I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start."

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Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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Donna Grant

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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Donna Grant

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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Donna Grant

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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Donna Grant

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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Donna Grant

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

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Donna Grant

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

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Donna Grant

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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John Lee Hooker
"Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it."

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John Lee Hooker
"I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit."

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John Lee Hooker
"The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different."

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John Lee Hooker
"The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning."

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John Lee Hooker
"Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em."

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John Lee Hooker
"If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going."

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John Lee Hooker
"I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start."

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John Lee Hooker
"I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did."

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John Lee Hooker
"They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too."

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John Lee Hooker
"I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want."

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