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.
B. B. KINGI 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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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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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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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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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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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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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