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. KINGWhen I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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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 do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!
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I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take 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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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don’t know how much I appreciate it.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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