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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

Bleeding Blood Blues Me Same

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

I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

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.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

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

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O'Shea Jackson Jr

The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all – it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Elwyn Brooks White

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!

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