Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
B. B. KINGI’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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I’ve always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she’s pretty.
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I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you’re going to the bank to borrow money.
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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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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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