Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
B. B. KINGThere’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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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.
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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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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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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.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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 call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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