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Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I’d go back next Saturday.

B. B. King

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
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
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
I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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Angry Friendship Myself
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Friendship Music Myself
A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Believe People Talk
I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Afford Alcohol Myself Wine
The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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Beginning Mom Music Source
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Friendship Guitar Myself Old
Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I’d go back next Saturday.
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Joint Money Myself Time
I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Children Myself Yourself
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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Brother College Learning Man Music Myself Play
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
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
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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Connection Guitar Myself Try Voice
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

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