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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

B. B. King

I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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Entertainment Myself Sing Try
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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Mindset Myself Oral Play Sing
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
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
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
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing
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
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
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Death Music People Problem
I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Myself Perspective Steal Thinking
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 call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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Blue Call Guitar Man Myself Sing
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Friendship Music Myself
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
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Black Foundation Taste Water White
I never use that word, retire.
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Myself Retirement Word

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

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