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I always had my guitar; I worked at writing some songs. I always played music – in the house. I sang to my daughters, I scribbled down some ideas. Actually I didn’t always play music. I did leave it alone for some time too.

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I like Detroit.

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I don’t much listen to music as I study it: who‘s doing what, who wrote it.

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I just want to be treated like an ordinary legend.

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Education, information and knowledge are all one.

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Entertainment news doesn’t interest me.

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My work is more to me than just music.

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The earth is going to survive, it’s the people that aren’t.

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I wasn’t very successful at running for office.

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In the music business, there’s a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you’ll be better off when the adjustment comes.

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There’s no blueprint for success in rock‘n’roll.

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Musicians want to be heard. So I’m not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense. Because some people carry it with them.

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I have a sloppy style of playing guitar. A percussive style. Unique in fact.

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I like to say that I do covers of my own songs. And I have about a dozen bands all over the world. That’s no exaggeration. I have a South African band, an Australian band, Swedish bands, English bands, American bands. They’re all notable musicians, too.

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I loved the Woody Guthrie tradition of speaking about what’s happening to the country.

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That’s the way I always listened to music. I’d listen and copy it. I play by ear so that’s easier than reading.

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Voice is the first instrument.

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I did a lot of heavy-lifting – construction, demolition, that kind of thing. Dusty, dirty work.

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I stopped chasing the music dream back in ’74.

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I’m a musical political, I tend to stick to what I see happening outside my front door.

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I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I’m a musician. I’m self-taught.

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There are beautiful songs people write about love and dancing. But it’s political issues that should be addressed.

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I want to be mayor of the world. Don’t give me too much money or too much power.

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Many of us come into the world with a clenched fist, but we all leave with an open hand.

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I’m Mexican, and we do a lot of singing, and it was my brother‘s guitar that I’d practice on, and he would say, ‘Who’s that playing my guitar?’

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I play by ear – I’m self-taught. And so everything I do is through that technique.

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I’m not getting old, I’m getting dead.

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I don’t like litter and blight.

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I know I did ‘Establishment Blues,’ and I said ‘This is not a song it’s an outburst‘ and I’d play it, I never did describe it as a rant – R-A-N-T – but the thing is it’s exactly that. Sometimes it sounds like that, but there’s a lot out there on the everyday man, on the plight of the little guy.

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My career, it’s been a mess.

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It’s an honor and a pleasure to be heard.

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There are no guarantees in the music field. There’s a lot of rejection, a lot of criticism and a lot of disappointment. You have to be prepared for that. And after 1973, it just wasn’t happening for me.

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I’m a fortunate man, quite fortunate.

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Solomon was a musician and David was a musician, so it’s a profession that I take seriously.

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You never throw away your work clothes. There is always something to do in the house.

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I’m born and bred out of Detroit. Detroit is an interesting place. You’ve got to be from somewhere.

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My dad, he was my role model – my mom died when I was three – and the way we honor our parents is remembering their heritage.

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You want to know the secret of life? It is to breathe in and out. And the mystery of life? You never know when it is going to end.

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It took me 10 years to get a four-year degree, but I graduated.

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The film, ‘Searching For Sugar Man,’ has excited my music career.

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I play guitar and I’m always trying to find out the latest kinds of riffs.

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Where other people live in an artificial world, I feel I live in the real world. And nothing beats reality.

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The social realism of ‘ Establishment Blues’ or ‘Like Janis,’ are what I chose to use to express what was happening in the U.S. and what was happening to me personally.

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I don’t necessarily want a higher education, I want a wider education. I want to know everything and experience everything.

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I have fun with words.

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I enjoy room service.

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I love my country. It’s just the government I don’t trust.

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In Detroit there are a lot of houses they are going to demolish because no one is taking care of them.

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I loved Jimmy Reed, the chord changes, the lyrics.

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I’m a worker, but I think that all workers get an idea of what to do to get free. Any kind of bondage, even economic bondage, is slavery.

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I’ve only written 30 songs or something. Dylan‘s written over 500 songs. There’s no comparison. He’s the Shakespeare of rock ‘n’ roll and popular music.

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My entry level has always been pretty high in the music business.

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The Isley Brothers, there’s a group that stays together because they’re a family band.

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There’s no shame in hard work.

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I chose music and that’s what I do.

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