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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

Done Many Many Sounds Sounds Still Things Want

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I've been a loner all the time throughout my life… I haven't been the best father… Many times… my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop – I can't think of any music I don't like.

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here – like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things – but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.

I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet – I just like music.

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Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England – where liberal value have deep historic roots.

Just like anyone else, I want privacy at times, but I understand that I am a celebrity.

I just try to look good always.

Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.

I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.

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