"Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice."
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"I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God."
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"I was born with music inside me"
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"I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix."
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"Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you."
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"I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind."
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"Now Listen You know I work so hard, all day long Everything I try to do, Seem to always turn out wrong That's why I wanna stop by on my way home and say Let's go get stoned"
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"There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment."
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"Drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper."
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"Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more."
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"You never can overwhelm an instrument. You will never get out all that's in an instrument. An instrument will bring you to your limits."
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"Nowadays they say you need a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story."
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"It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good."
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"My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil."
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"Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano."
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"If you can play the blues, you can do anything."
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"Sighted people, you gotta deal with them."
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"Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it."
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"Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women."
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"What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man."
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