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.
B. B. KINGWhen 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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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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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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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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When I was young, I didn’t play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I’ve reached. Think what they might do over time.
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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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Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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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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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