My style is all to myself.
I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.
I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.
I am a happy man. I've had a good life.
Ron Thompson, he's my main man!
I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
That girl has a special talent
They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.
Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.
But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.
I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened.
Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.
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