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I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Black Foundation Taste Water White
I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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Feeling Love Passion Performance Show
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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Brother College Learning Man Music Myself Play
When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.
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Ground Money Place Worry Yourself
We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
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Animal Help Nature Need Ourselves Planet Protect World
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
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Hard Work Room Scale Sleep Try
When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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Mindset Myself Oral Play Sing
I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good – he’s rock’s #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.
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Better Goodness Guitar Himself Music Myself Play
God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Creation God Music Woman
The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don’t know how much I appreciate it.
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Appreciation Crowd Myself Name People Treat
Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
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Beautiful Country Leaving Myself People Scene
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I’d go back next Saturday.
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Joint Money Myself Time
Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Education Oneself Yourself
You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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Life Missing Yourself

I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

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I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

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