Howlin' Wolf famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine.
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A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.
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When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.
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I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.
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Watch out strange cat people, little red roosters on the prowl. If you see my little red rooster, please drive him home.
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I don't have anything to say about the guy [Muddy Waters], you know. Treat me all right. But I can this: they are jealous hearted, you know. Are jealous hearted musicians, you know. See, if you can't do like your songs, get kinda jealous of you. Like you, like they think you better than them and all that, but I don't fool with those kind of peoples, you know. I ain't got the time.
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Ain't no better place than the US. This is a free enterprise system. You can get whatever you want in the US.
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When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.
-- Howlin' Wolf
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Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.
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But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.
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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
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History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.
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Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself
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More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.
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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
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