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"I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first."
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"Hearing the blues changed my life."
Life

"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."
Change

"I don't think nostalgia has to be negative."
Negative

"When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now."
People

"You've got to separate the singer and the songs."
Music

"In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing."
Cards

"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."
Imagination

"I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity."
Negativity

"I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous."
Love

"The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on."
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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."
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"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."
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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
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"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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"Eternity eludes us, even as a thought."
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"The only way to make a great thought great is to share it."
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"Language is the dress of thought."
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"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."
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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
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