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"We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play."
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"One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed."
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"As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly."
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"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."
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"I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star."
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"Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now."
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"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."
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"I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer."
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"I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that."
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"I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter."
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"You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood."
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"We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands."
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"We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out."
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"We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play."
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"They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words."
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"I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him."
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"It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn."
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"I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music."
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"My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues."
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