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John Lee Hooker Quotes

I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.

John Lee Hooker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 22, 1917 - June 21, 2001

Topics

People Small Start Help Trying Club

I wasn't always someone who was talented. It was more that I was loud and loved a challenge.

Challenge Loved Someone More Always

You can't really be super conservative and continue to keep your audience, but at least the audience that we attract comes with a certain level of naughtiness.

You Conservative Audience Level Keep

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

Justice Think Church Social Justice

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Words Prison Year Done Never First

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Courage Time Person Coward Danger

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

Tony Kornheiser

Television Now Washington Radio Post

Scientology, Buddhism, the Kabbalah... if it makes people's lives better, and easier, then I'll do it. Why not? People scoffed at Christianity 2,000 years ago, didn't they?

Robbie Williams

People Better Why Years Why Not

I want my thoughts to be an incentive for the reader to give his or her own thoughts. After I wrote 'Proust and the Squid,' I received truly hundreds of letters - I'm still receiving them - and the letters that I wrote back helped me formulate my thinking around things I know are important to others.

Me Thoughts Thinking Back Know Want

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

Never California Like Felt Really

Hard work always wins in the end.

Work Hard Work End Hard Always Wins

I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.

Fortunate Move Been Forced Zone

I've been able to carve my way out with lyrics and melodies.

Way Out Been Able Lyrics Melodies

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