63 Quotes by John Lee Hooker

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

It don't take me no three days to record no album.

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.

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.

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

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.

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.

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.