Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
B. B. KINGI’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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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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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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I never use that word, retire.
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