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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.

B. B. King

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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Blue Himself Love Unique
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
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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Audience Kind Myself Night Personality Time
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
Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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Expensive Spent Wisdom
Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I’d go back next Saturday.
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Joint Money Myself Time
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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Knowledge Man Myself Thinking Wisdom
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 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
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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Children Myself Play Reach Start Time Young
The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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Beginning Mom Music Source
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Beautiful Inspirational Learning Motivational Yourself
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Black Foundation Taste Water White
It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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Instrument Music Myself Play Style Way

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