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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

Better Black Fountain Water White White Fountain

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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

Touring a segregated America – forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

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

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

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've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

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In almost any country, probably in Russia in particular, it's fashionable to criticise people in power. If you come out in support of someone like me, you're going to be accused of trying to ingratiate yourself.

We just kept going down the road, we kept trying to make the next record, the right choices to get there.

I start every morning off with a green juice, because I think it's really important to be alkalined, and then I work out. We teach people that you need to find that balance and that what you put into your body is directly affecting your health.

Luxury is a state of mind.

I always think today is better than yesterday, and tomorrow is better than today.

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