I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.
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When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
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But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
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I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.
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There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.
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I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
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We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
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When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.
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If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.
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