John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hookerwas an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth22 August 1917
CountryUnited States of America
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.
In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.
That girl has a special talent
All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.
But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.
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.
I am a happy man. I've had a good life.
I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.
Ron Thompson, he's my main man!
If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.
It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .
I wanna get drunk 'til I'm off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.
I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.