If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KINGIt’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.
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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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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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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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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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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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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 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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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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