[1956] "The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I`m doin` now, man, for more years than I know. They played it like that in their shanties and in their juke joints and nobody paid it no mind `til I goosed it up. I got it from them. Down...
[on performing] "It`s like a surge of electricity going through you. It`s almost like making love, but it`s even stronger than that . . . sometimes I think my heart is going to explode."
I`ve never gotten over what they call stage fright. I go through it every show. I`m pretty concerned, I`m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don`t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in tha...
There`s been a big change in the music field in the last 10 or 12 years. I think everything has improved - the sounds have improved, the musicians have improved, the engineers have definitely improved. I like a lot of the new groups, y`know, The Beatles a...
[when asked what kind of music he sings] "I sing all kinds."
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