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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

B. B. King

I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
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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Feeling Freedom Lunch Myself Pay Responsibility
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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Ground Money Place Worry Yourself
You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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Death Goodness Time Live Yourself
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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Acceptance Death Heaven Hypocrisy Irony Journey
God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Creation God Music Woman
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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Day Music Myself People Price Record Stop
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Death Music People Problem
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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Care Idol Play Try Yourself
Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
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Beautiful Country Leaving Myself People Scene
I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Afford Alcohol Myself Wine
I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Myself Perspective Steal Thinking
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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Family Growth Man Myself Stand Teaching
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Friendship Guitar Myself Old
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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Life Missing Yourself

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

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