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John Lee Hooker Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated May 2024
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You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.
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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 way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
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The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.
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The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.
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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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Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to.
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My style is all to myself.
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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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It don't take me no three days to record no album.
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In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.
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If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.
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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 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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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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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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I like the small clubs.
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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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I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.
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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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