Dr. John
Dr. John
Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, better known by the stage name Dr. John, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist, whose music combines blues, pop, jazz as well as zydeco, boogie woogie and rock and roll...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth21 November 1940
CountryUnited States of America
egos good
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.
years current-events determined
The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event.
voice profound vision
When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.
new-orleans dies
You wanna do some livin' before you die. Do it down in New Orleans...
soul world whole
I'd rather have the whole world against me than my own soul.
thinking risk matter
I've been thinking a lot lately about taking chances, and how it's really just about overcoming your fears. Because the truth is, everytime you take a big risk in your life, no matter how it ends up, you're always glad you took it.
spiritual giving people
We all, if we go with ego I go or you go ego thing, it's got to be free from all of that and just roll, because music is a spiritual thing. It's got to come through us and can't just hit us. It's got to be part of us that comes through us and goes to the people, and then they come back to us and give us more spirit.
names proud middle
Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names.
powerful people needs
Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people; it's too much to expect. If I was in power, I would not educate people in how to take my powers away.
guitar musician shots
I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.
color creative lines
The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as well as private relationships. There is nothing more remarkable than the ingenuity that the various demarcations of the color line reflect. If only the same creative energy could be used to eradicate the color line; then its days would indeed be numbered.
stress inability changing-environment
Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.
cutting thinking people
I think that any of the places that's cut off from money, things come up, what the people have to rely on.
land cities new-orleans
Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet Earth.