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" If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America. "

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" Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth. "

" I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint. "

" I'm thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up. "

" I just feel I got my inspiration, education and all from others that came before me. And I added my... I don't even know if I added anything. I played what they played, and it sounded different, I guess. "

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" Rather than have joy, I would rather be absent of pain. "

" I directed my music to the teen-agers. I was 30 years old when I did 'Maybellene.' My school days had long been over when I did 'School Day,' but I was thinking of them. "

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" People don't want to see 17 pieces in neckties. They wanna see some jeans, some gettin' down, and some wigglin'. "

" The world has done nothing to me that I haven't done with the world. "

" If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear. "

" The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy. "

" It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest. "

" The Man Upstairs is taking care of me. "

" That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means. "

" I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him. "

" Don't let the same dog bite you twice. "

" The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff on our predominantly black audience. After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff. "

" My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents. "