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I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I'm gonna blow you both away.
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I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
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You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'
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Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder
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There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!
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The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
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Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don't like yours and you don't like mine.