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Mavis Staples

The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother’s church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

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I can’t just turn over and sing disco or rock.

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I’m just singing what I feel in my heart.

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I get my voice from my mother’s side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.

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The kids today have these fresh faces. It’s like they’re on pins and needles, waiting to see what I’m going to do. They’ve never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I’ve worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.

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I have fun just about everywhere I go.

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I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

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Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I’m gone.

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We’ve had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the ‘colored only’ signs come off the water fountains and bathrooms in the south. But the struggle lives on.

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I’ve got to sing for Pops; I’ve got to keep my father’s legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn’t let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy’s basement.

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I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he’s gone, and I just dropped out.

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Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You’ll always have your family.

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