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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

B. B. King

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
There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
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Happiness Kind Music Sadness Yourself
Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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Greatness Guitar Himself World
I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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Goodness Horrible Music Myself
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
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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Better Goodness Guitar Himself Music Myself Play
The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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Laughter Live Love Music
God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Creation God Music Woman
I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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Angry Friendship Myself
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 can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Afford Alcohol Myself Wine
The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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Beginning Mom Music Source
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing
I don’t do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That’s why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.
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Day Music Myself People Price Record Stop
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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Entertainment Myself Sing Try
Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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Expensive Spent Wisdom

I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

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