All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.
From John Lee Hooker
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.
They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.
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.
I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.
In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.
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.
I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.
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