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.
B. B. KINGWe 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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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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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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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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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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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 like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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