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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

B. B. King

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
B. B. KING

Care Idol Play Try Yourself
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
Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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Expensive Spent Wisdom
The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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Laughter Live Love Music
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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Count Missing Myself Play
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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Happiness Kind Music Sadness Yourself
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
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Beautiful Inspirational Learning Motivational Yourself
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
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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Life Missing Yourself
I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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Knowledge Man Myself Thinking Wisdom
Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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Acceptance Evidence Explanation Natural People Problem Religion Universe
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
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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Creation Myself Sound
Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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Herself Love Lying Mom
Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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Guitar One Liner Play Truth
May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Day Forever Live Myself
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 don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
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Feeling Freedom Lunch Myself Pay Responsibility
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
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Black Sing Time
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing
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.
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Beautiful Country Leaving Myself People Scene
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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Death God Leaving Myself Prayer Sleep Stage Way
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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Blue Call Guitar Man Myself Sing
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Black Foundation Taste Water White

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