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. KINGKenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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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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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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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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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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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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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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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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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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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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