The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
B. B. KINGJazz 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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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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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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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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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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