John Lee Hooker Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



John Lee Hooker Quotes and Sayings


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    All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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    But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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    Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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    I am a happy man. I've had a good life. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    I don't do nothing I don't want to do. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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    I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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    I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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    I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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    I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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    I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    I like the small clubs. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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    I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
  • 18
    If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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    In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
  • 20
    It don't take me no three days to record no album. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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    Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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    My style is all to myself. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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    Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
  • 24
    Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
  • 25
    The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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    The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
  • 29
    You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop. John Lee Hooker | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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