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"I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style."
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"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
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"It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters."
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"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
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"I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops."
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"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
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"In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record."
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"Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago."
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"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets."
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"I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style."
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"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."
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"Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings."
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"I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style."
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"Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm."
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