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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

B. B. King

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 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
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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Acceptance Death Heaven Hypocrisy Irony Journey
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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Brother College Learning Man Music Myself Play
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Death Music People Problem
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Black Foundation Taste Water White
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
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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Life Missing Yourself
May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Day Forever Live Myself
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
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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Blood Connection 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
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.
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Feeling Good Health Myself People Way
I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Afford Alcohol Myself Wine
I never use that word, retire.
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Myself Retirement Word
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

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