“In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.”
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I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
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I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.
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In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.
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I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.
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Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.
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