I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KINGThere are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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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.
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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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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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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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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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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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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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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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