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"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
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"I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect."
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"I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company."
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"I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues."
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"I focused on how these people became how they were."
People
"But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job."
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"But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?"
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"I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that."
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"But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch."
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"I want people to recognize Luther Allison when I play."
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"Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s."
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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."
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"We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour."
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"I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing."
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"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."
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"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."
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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
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"Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now."
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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
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"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."
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