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.
B. B. KINGJazz 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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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’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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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 do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That’s why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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I never use that word, retire.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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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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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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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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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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