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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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"Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough."

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

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"Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post."

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"I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves."

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Assegid Habtewold

"Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet."

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"I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names."

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"The stuff we did under the name the Rentals got so chaotic."

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"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."

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"My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?"

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"Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name."

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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
"I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks."

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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
"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 am a happy man. I've had a good life."

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John Lee Hooker
"The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it."

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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
"You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop."

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John Lee Hooker
"I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune."

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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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