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"The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing."
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"Feelings are the language of the heart. Everything else is static noise."

"How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."

"You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot."

"I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one."

"Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed."

"If someone is expressing everything I am feeling at the moment, it's probably Jon Stewart. I hear him and think, Yeah!"

"Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character."

"I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well."
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"When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today."

"This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self."

"There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it."

"The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me."

"The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now."
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