How They Got Over (2018)

Clarence Fountain: Self - Blind Boys of Alabama

Quotes 

• Clarence Fountain : It was a chorus dat we came out of at school. We picked the best voices we thought dat could sing. We put 'em together and made a quartet. 1944. We said we were gonna hit de road. And you comin' up, you don't know what's ahead of you. All you know is what's behind you. We hit de road and didn't look back.

• Clarence Fountain : Dey had de state run deaf and the blind school. And you had people dat de state hired to come and werk at de school. Didn't have no trainin'. Didn't know nutin' about nutin'. And so, you didn't learn nutin'. Dey had a supervisor dat didn't like nobody. He put enuf whupins on us to last us a lifetime.

• Clarence Fountain : If you never got on a record, you still was nobody. Everybody who knew somebody, was on a record.

• Clarence Fountain : Gettin' over mean you know when you - you satisfied de audience. You know that.

• Clarence Fountain : I've done my time. We've come a long ways. And, to be precise, we've come - a *long* way.