If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you’re going to the bank to borrow money.
B. B. KINGYou only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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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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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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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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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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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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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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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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