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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.

B. B. King

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
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
I can’t think of anyone I’ve mistreated. I’ve always thought that I am my brother’s keeper. And I believe there’s a ‘great spirit’ that takes care of all of us.
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Believe Care Greatness Ourselves Thinking Treat
A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Believe People Talk
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
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
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.
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Feeling Good Health Myself People Way
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
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
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Connection Emotional Guitar Human
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
I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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Angry Friendship Myself
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Black Sing Time
May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Day Forever Live Myself
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

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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