Quotes by John Hooker

• Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.
• Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.
• The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.
• The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.
• The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.
• It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.
• I sincerely believe blogging can save America.
• The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.
• Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.
• Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.
• It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.
• If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject.
• On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.
• I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years.
• A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.
• Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.
• I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashville as a great family man who has dedicated his life to helping others and, in that regard, he has followed in his father's footsteps.
• I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.
• But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.
• I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.
• I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.
• I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.
• I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.
• Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to.
• I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.
• 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 don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.
• 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.
• I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
• 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.
• I don't do nothing I don't want to do.
• I am a happy man. I've had a good life.
• I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.
• My style is all to myself.
• You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.
• 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.
• I like the small clubs.
• 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.
• Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.
• All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.
• 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.
• The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
• The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.
• It don't take me no three days to record no album.
• The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.
• Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.
• But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.