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John Lee Hooker Quotes
All my life I been doin what people tell me to do. Now, Im telling them. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
But I dont want to do no big tours or go out on the road. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
I am a happy man. Ive had a good life. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
I do benefits. I do them all the time. Theres so many people out there that needs help that I cant say I wont help them. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
I dont do nothing I dont want to do. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
I dont play a lot of fancy guitar. I dont want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
I dont think about time. Youre here when youre here. I think about today, staying in tune. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. Cause thats 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. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
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. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
I just get an idea and then all of a sudden Ive got a song. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
I like the small clubs. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
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 dont know why, but he did. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
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. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
Ive got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I dont have to do nothing I dont want to. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about cant hold it back now because the blues is really going. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
In my career, people in the record business have been rockin in the same ol boat. They all crooks - Ill say it clear and loud - especially the big ones. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
It dont take me no three days to record no album. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
Like you and your woman aint gettin along and youre in love. You cant sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, thats the blues. You cant hug that money at night. You cant kiss it. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
My style is all to myself. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
Since you knew they was goin to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of em. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
The one thing the blues dont get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down peoples throat so they got no choice but to listen to it. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
They wasnt gonna give you nothin. I didnt care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and Im gonna get me some money, too. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
You can go to Europe, and theres no turnin back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it dont stop. - John Lee Hooker Quotes
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