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.
B. B. KINGYou only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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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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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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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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When I was young, I didn’t play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I’ve reached. Think what they might do over time.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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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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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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