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.
B. B. KINGJanis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.
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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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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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When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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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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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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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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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let’s get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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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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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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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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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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