- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I recorded without Allen Toussaint, I wanted to do doo-wop. Everything I've done since then has got some kind of doo-wop essence in it.
- March
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- Nov 07, 2020
I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
- Dots
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
- Owe
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- Nov 07, 2020