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I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.
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Nobody loves me but my mother,
And she could be jiving, too.
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As long as I'm footin' the bills
I'm paying the cost to be the boss.
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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Real-life songs, where you feel the hurt and heat between man and woman, have cash value.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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I've never liked the lyrics that rappers use about women — all ladies to me are like angels.
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Some people say that blues singers are always cryin' in their beer. But you know what? I don't drink.
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I was awarded an honorary doctorate from Yale in 1977 at the same time as the former President Gerald Ford.
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I have an excellent medical team. There's Dr Viagra, Dr Cialis, and nurse Levitra. They keep me, er, straight.
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The thing about Elvis is that he is a lot more popular now in death than he was when he was alive - but I would rather that they come while I'm here.
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When I first got the blues,
They brought me over on a ship.
Men was standing over me,
And a lot more with a whip.
And everybody wanna know,
Why I sing the blues.
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I knew that it would be tough. As they always say — if you're white and play the blues, you're black once. If you're black and you play the blues, you're black twice.
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: "Always on My Mind," the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night.
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The Stones were superstars. I supported them on tour in 1969 and to be able to do something with them was a godsend for me. It probably didn't mean much to them, but it meant a lot to me.
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Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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In 1995 I was given the Kennedy Center Honors Award and sat with President Clinton. A boy from Mississippi getting a chance to meet the President of the United States — that was something.
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The younger players, my hat goes off to them. Because they are always coming up with ideas that I never thought of. I sometimes used to kind of hate myself for that: Why didn't I think of it?
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Blues had this bad image about it that made it, along with country music, something that the educated 'majority' would always put down. Blues seemed to be right at the bottom of the totem pole.
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The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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Born:
September 16, 1925
Died:
May 14, 2015
(aged 89)
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