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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.

B. B. King

Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Black Sing Time
I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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Feeling Love Passion Performance Show
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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Blood Connection Music Myself
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
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Black Foundation Taste Water White
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
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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People Song Way Yourself
It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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Contribution Himself Music People Realization
The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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Laughter Live Love Music
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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Appreciation Crowd Myself Name People Treat
I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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Guess Man Myself Name Old
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.
B. B. KING

Animal Help Nature Need Ourselves Planet Protect World
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
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing
I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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Angry Friendship Myself

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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