All John Lee Hooker Quotes
All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.
John Lee Hooker
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Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.
John Lee Hooker
49% of people like this quote
I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.
John Lee Hooker
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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
48% of people like this quote
The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.
John Lee Hooker
47% of people like this quote
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
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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
45% of people like this quote
Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to.
John Lee Hooker
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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
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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
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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
41% of people like this quote
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
40% of people like this quote
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