There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
B. B. KINGIf 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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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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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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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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There’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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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