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" Everybody knows who Gandhi is. Who knows Jesse Stone? "
Who
Stone
Knows
" Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else. "
Know
Long
Yourself
" I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.' "
Name
Rock
Thought
" I've been given my money. Nobody has ever beaten me out of one quarter. And that's all I've ever been concerned about. "
Money
Beaten
Out
" Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints that they had there, they used black bands. Most musicians who amounted to anything, they would flock to Kansas City because that's the place where jobs were plentiful. "
Music
Influence
City
" Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn't know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on. "
People
Done
Blues
" The publicity and hoopla was never important to me. "
Important
Me
Never
" We need to work to keep from getting rusty. "
Rusty
Keep
Work
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