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Jay McShann

"My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues."

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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."

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"Children see beauty in everything."

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"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."

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"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."

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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."

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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

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"Children are great observers."

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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."

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"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."

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"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."

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Jay McShann
"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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Jay McShann
"My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues."

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Jay McShann
"We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out."

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Jay McShann
"We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play."

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Jay McShann
"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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