 Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight. |
| I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did. |
| I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song. |
| I like the small clubs. |
| I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to. |
| All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them. |
| The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different. |
| It don't take me no three days to record no album. |
| 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. |
| 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 don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks. |
| Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to. |
| 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 am a happy man. I've had a good life. |
| Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it. |
| I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues. |
| But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road. |
| Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em. |
| The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it. |
| I don't do nothing I don't want to do. |
