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I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

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Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

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In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

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I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

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I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.

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I believe I was ahead of my time.

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I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.

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In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: November 5th, 1931

Died: December 12th, 2007

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