I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
B. B. KINGEverybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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 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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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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I’ve always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she’s pretty.
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We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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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.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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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