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

Cotton Force Growing Nature Poetry

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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

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.

My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

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

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

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.

Do I love the road? Honestly? No – but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

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.

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.

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The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.

I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.

We always focus on the quality of music because as long as the content is good, then the interest will be there.

Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

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