The beauty & wisdom of John Lee Hooker

"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."

"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."

"It don't take me no three days to record no album."

"Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep
at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues.
You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it."

"I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind
of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks."

-John Lee Hooker

Been meaning to...

I've been meaning to write. I know. I know. But the days start so quick and become late visions of themselves almost as soon as the gun is fired. And most of the time, I just sit so still, in contemplation and confusion and perplexity, watching the smoke clear- and the days grow so late, before anyone even has the chance to inform me of this. Hello. Goodbye. Again? And again. Hello.

My absence, silence, distraction is not of ignorance or apathy. Quite the opposite. Everyday no matter how early I wake or late I may sleep, I do rise to hear the sound of every man, every jubilation, every bomb, bastard, terror and every charm, that which has come and that which is far gone, the fortunes gained and the virtue lost by hands very much the same as my own.

I may be quiet, but am far from out the game.