I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.
You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin' all these years is changin' it up.
You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.
Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.
The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.
But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.