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I never use that word, retire.

B. B. King

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
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you’re going to the bank to borrow money.
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Bank Goodness Money People Sing Yourself
God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Creation God Music Woman
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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Creation Myself Sound
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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Blood Connection Music Myself
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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Ground Money Place Worry Yourself
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
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
Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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Blood Brother Music Myself
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Black Sing Time
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
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
I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!
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Cry Guitarist Happy Myself Place Play
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
I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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Feeling Love Passion Performance Show

I never use that word, retire.

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