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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.

B. B. King

I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING

Divorce Marriage Myself Woman
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.
B. B. KING

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 blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.
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Children Love Music People Problem See Shame Yourself
I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.
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Audience Kind Myself Night Personality Time
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
Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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Expensive Spent Wisdom
I’ve always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she’s pretty.
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Beautiful Lady Life Myself Start Woman
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Black Foundation Taste Water White
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
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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Family Hard Time Hurt Myself Necessary People Possible
The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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Beginning Mom Music Source
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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Death Goodness Time Live Yourself
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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Blood Connection Music Myself
A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Believe People Talk

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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