"If it keeps on rainin', the levee's gonna break." - Memphis Minnie, 1929 and me, 9:56 PM.
Yer Ol' Uncle D
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"God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can." - Ginger Baker
Looks like a lot of us are deeply connected to Dr. John. I put up a snippet of my recording from 2013 if you'd like to groove to some Mac Rebennack. https://www.needlesandgrooves.com/threads/live-music-is-better-the-tapers-thread.58/post-33607
"See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea." - Dr. John
"Life's too short and too complicated for people behind desks, people behind masks to be ruining other people's lives, initiating force against other people's lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, whatever." - Jeff Buckley
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - Frank Zappa
"How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do. " - Curtis Mayfield, born this day in 1942.
"Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life." - Art Blakey
"It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion." - J Mascis
"Whenever a political regime or religious establishment refuses to tolerate criticism, it advertises itself as repressive, backward, and insecure." - Mark Knopfler
"Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny." - George Clinton
"At one time, I had it notarised that I was from another planet. By a lawyer." - Roky Erickson. Hope the other side is as fun as you imagined. RIP.
"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso." - Robert Quine, 15 years gone today. You probably don't know Bob by name, but you've probably heard Bob's guitar. And if you haven't, you need to.
"The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea." - Nick Cave
"I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things. Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behavior patterns make me so bored," - Wendy O. Williams
"I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli." - David Johansen
"Don't play what's there, play what's not there." - Miles Davis
"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary." - Billy Joel
"I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy." - Bob Dylan
"I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz." - Sonny Rollins
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