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John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie.

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I wanna get drunk 'til I'm off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.

Beer, Drunk, Mind, Scotch, Wanna

I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.

Lifetime, Lifetimes, Live, Money, Two, Want

I'm even afraid to lay down with you at night, because when you go to bed at night, mean woman, you got an ice pick in your hand.

Afraid, Hands, Lay, Mean, Night

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.

Cheating, Gonna, Long, Music, Nothin, Play

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

Doin, Life, People, Tell, Telling

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

Corporations, Groups, Musician, Pension Plans, Plans, Saw

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

Hold, Night, People, Sleep

My style is all to myself.

Style

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

Idea, Ideas, Song, Sudden

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

Clubs, Help, Like, People, Playing, Trying

I never build myself us. I let the people do that. I'm the most laid-back person, and I let them build me up. If you ask me, I say, 'I''m just a guy playin' some blues.

Ask, Guy, Laid Back, People, Say

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

Blues, Blues Music, Lines, Meaning, Stories, Tells

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

Good Life, Happy, Happy Man, Life, Man, Men

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.

Big, Cities, Detroit, Light, Taste

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

Memphis, Pick, Pick Me Up, Six Months, Splits, Stopped

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

Nothing, Want

Ron Thompson, he's my main man!

Man, Men, Ron, Thompson

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.

Back, Bars, Boom, Detroit, Night

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.

Backing, Choices, Choke, Garbage, People, Radio

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.

Big, Business, Careers, Crooks, Ones, People

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