John Lee Hooker Quotes
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Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.
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Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.
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I wanna get drunk 'til I'm off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.
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I don't do nothin’ I don't want to do.
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I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.
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I'm even afraid to lay down with you at night, because when you go to bed at night, mean woman, you got an ice pick in your hand.
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I don't do nothing I don't want to do.
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I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
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The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
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I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.
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Well I ain't seen my baby since I don't know when, I've been drinking bourbon whiskey, scotch and gin Gonna get high man I'm gonna get loose, Need me a triple shot of that juice Gonna get drunk don't you have no fear I want one bourbon, one scotch and one beer One bourbon, one scotch, one beer.
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That girl has a special talent
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Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.
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I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.
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Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.
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I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.
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I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.
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I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't have no style. It's a deep feeling-you just can't stop listening to that sad blues sound. My sound.
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I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.
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Ron Thompson, he's my main man!
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When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.
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I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.
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It don't take me no three days to record no album.
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I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.
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I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.
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It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .
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No matter what you got, the blues is there
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I am a happy man. I've had a good life.
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They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.
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The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.
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