T-Bone Walker Quotes

• I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz.

  T-Bone Walker

  Thinking, Jazz, Ifs

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• I just naturally started to play music. My whole family played-my daddy played, my mother played. My daddy played bass, my cousin played banjo, guitar and mandolin. We played at root beer stands, like the .Drive-ins they have now, making $2.50 a night, and we had a cigar box for the kitty that we passed around, sometimes making fifty or sixty dollars a night. Of course we didn't get none of it, we kids.

  T-Bone Walker

  Mother, Cousin, Kids

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• I was called "T-Bow" but the people got it mixed up with "T-Bone." My name is Aaron Walker but "T-Bone" is catchy, people remember it. My auntie gave it to me when I was a kid. Mother's mother was a Cherokee Indian full blooded. There were sixteen girls and two boys in my mother's family, all dead but two.

  T-Bone Walker

  Girl, Mother, Kids

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