Quotes by John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker

All my life I been doin’ what people tell me to do. Now, I’m telling them.

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But I don’t want to do no big tours or go out on the road.

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Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

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I am a happy man. I’ve had a good life.

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I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won’t tell nobody else! I can’t help but wonder what happened.

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I do benefits. I do them all the time. There’s so many people out there that needs help that I can’t say I won’t help them.

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I don’t do nothin’ I don’t want to do.

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I don’t do nothing I don’t want to do.

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I don’t like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don’t have no style. It’s a deep feeling-you just can’t stop listening to that sad blues sound. My sound.

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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.

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Quotes by John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker

All my life I been doin’ what people tell me to do. Now, I’m telling them.

But I don’t want to do no big tours or go out on the road.

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

I am a happy man. I’ve had a good life.

I do benefits. I do them all the time. There’s so many people out there that needs help that I can’t say I won’t help them.

I don’t do nothin’ I don’t want to do.

I don’t do nothing I don’t want to do.

I don’t like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don’t have no style. It’s a deep feeling-you just can’t stop listening to that sad blues sound. My sound.

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.

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