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When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.

B. B. King

There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
B. B. KING

Happiness Kind Music Sadness Yourself
I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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Goodness Horrible Music Myself
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
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Death Music People Problem
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
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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Family Growth Man Myself Stand Teaching
Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let’s get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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Goodness Music Myself Savage Thinking
I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Children Myself Yourself
I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Afford Alcohol Myself Wine
When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING

Mindset Myself Oral Play Sing
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.
B. B. KING

Ground Money Place Worry Yourself
Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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Greatness Guitar Himself World
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
B. B. KING

Friendship Music Myself
You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
B. B. KING

Life Missing Yourself
Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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Blood Brother Music Myself

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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