I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
B. B. KINGHard 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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Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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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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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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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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I’ve always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she’s pretty.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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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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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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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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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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