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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 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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Animal Help Nature Need Ourselves Planet Protect World
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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Beautiful Lady Life Myself Start Woman
Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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Expensive Spent Wisdom
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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Children Love Music People Problem See Shame Yourself
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
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
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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Appreciation Crowd Myself Name People Treat
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
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
The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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Laughter Live Love Music
Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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Acceptance Evidence Explanation Natural People Problem Religion Universe
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing
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
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
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Friendship Guitar Myself Old
I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Divorce Marriage Myself Woman
I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!
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Cry Guitarist Happy Myself Place Play
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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Goodness Music Myself Savage Thinking
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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Blood Connection Music Myself
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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Brother College Learning Man Music Myself Play
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
I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Afford Alcohol Myself Wine
A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Believe People Talk
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Black Foundation Taste Water White
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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Creation Myself Sound
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Black Sing Time
Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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Greatness Guitar Himself World

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