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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.

B. B. King

If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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People Song Way Yourself
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
B. B. KING

Death Music People Problem
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
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Hard Work Room Scale Sleep Try
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
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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Family Hard Time Hurt Myself Necessary People Possible
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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Connection Guitar Myself Try Voice
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Black Foundation Taste Water White
You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
B. B. KING

Life Missing Yourself
I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good – he’s rock’s #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.
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Better Goodness Guitar Himself Music Myself Play
Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
B. B. KING

Education Oneself Yourself
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing
Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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Blood Brother Music Myself
It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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Instrument Music Myself Play Style Way
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Friendship Guitar Myself Old
The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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Laughter Live Love Music
Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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Expensive Spent Wisdom

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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