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"We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues."
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"I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious."
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"I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am."
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"My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size."
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"Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere."
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"They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind."
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"But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us."
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"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can."
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"I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years."
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"I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here."
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"I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately."
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"We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues."
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"But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now."
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"Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here."
Music
"I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time."
Time
"I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage."
Church
"When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada."
People
"I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them."
Thought
"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
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"There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues."
Time
"If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago."
Singing
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