Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
B. B. KINGIt 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.
More B. B. King Quotes
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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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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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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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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I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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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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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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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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You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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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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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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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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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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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