The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
B. B. KINGThe beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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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.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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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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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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I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
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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 never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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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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