John Lee Hooker Quotes - Page 2

• My style is all to myself.

  John Lee Hooker

  Style

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• 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.

  John Lee Hooker

  People, Needs, Benefits

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• I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.

  John Lee Hooker

  People, Trying, Clubs

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• I am a happy man. I've had a good life.

  John Lee Hooker

  Good Life, Men, Happy Man

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• Ron Thompson, he's my main man!

  John Lee Hooker

  Men

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• I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.

  John Lee Hooker

  Two, Want, Lifetime

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• The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

  John Lee Hooker

  Play, Different, Way

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• I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

  John Lee Hooker

  Baseball, Song, Writing

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• That girl has a special talent

  John Lee Hooker

  Girl, Special, Talent

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• 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.

  John Lee Hooker

  Cheating, Play, Long

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• Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

  John Lee Hooker

  Pension Plans, Musician, Groups

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• But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.

  John Lee Hooker

  Want, Bigs

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• 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.

  John Lee Hooker

  Music, Real, Men

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• Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

  John Lee Hooker

  Cheating, Names, Ems

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