Tony Joe White

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When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know what a song is going to be about before I write it.
- Tony Joe White
Collection: Song
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Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.
- Tony Joe White
Collection: Girl
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I've been very lucky, man. Like you say, though, the writing is what kicked all that in and made it possible. It's something that I have always been very thankful of, that that kicked in, and that I could be free with the music.
- Tony Joe White
Collection: Writing