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"I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do."
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"Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family."
Family
"When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh."
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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."
Musicians
"I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do."
People
"I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society."
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"The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters."
Development
"I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt."
Music
"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."
Interest
"I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one."
Life
"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."
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"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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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"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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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"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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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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"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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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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