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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.

B. B. King

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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Feeling Freedom Lunch Myself Pay Responsibility
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Friendship Music Myself
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 just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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Instrument Music Myself Play Style Way
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Connection Emotional Guitar Human
I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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Knowledge Man Myself Thinking 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
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
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
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing
God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Creation God Music Woman
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
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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Count Missing Myself Play
Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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Blue Himself Love Unique

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