Alberta Hunter Quotes

• The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

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  Play, Musician, Want

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• I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

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  Men, Thinking, Who I Am

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• I’ve been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose.

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  People, Purpose, Has Beens

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• The blues? Why, the blues are a part of me. They're like a chant. The blues are like spirituals, almost sacred. When we sing blues, we're singing out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues. When I sing, 'I walk the floor, wring my hands and cry -- Yes, I walk the floor, wring my hands and cry,'... what I'm doing is letting my soul out.

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  Hurt, Heart, Hands

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• Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.

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  Baby, Hurt, Heart

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• People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.

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  Thinking, People, Singing

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• Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

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  Faith In God, Songwriting, Confidence In Yourself

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• I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing.

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  Fun, Mean, Trying

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• Maybe if I knew music, I couldn't do what I am doing.

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  Ifs

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