John Lee
John Lee
dying batteries time-away
I like some time away to recharge the batteries, not only physically, but emotionally so that I get to the point where I'm just dying to direct again and then that's the right time to do it again.
deeds good-deeds
A good deed is a good deed.
thinking fishing montana
Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that.
winning loses happens
Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. That's also what happens in almost every movie - someone is going to win and someone is going to lose.
style
My style is all to myself.
pension-plans daylight corporations
Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.
two want lifetime
I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.
want
I don't do nothing I don't want to do.
mean night hands
I'm even afraid to lay down with you at night, because when you go to bed at night, mean woman, you got an ice pick in your hand.
cheating names ems
Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.
music real men
I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened.
records albums three
It don't take me no three days to record no album.
baseball song writing
I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
cheating play giving
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.