You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
B. B. KINGI do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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I’d rather be B.B. King. That’s the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other … I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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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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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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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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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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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