I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
B. B. KINGEducation is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Hard times don’t necessarily mean being poor all the time. I’ve known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that’s as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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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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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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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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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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