black
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

B. B. King

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
I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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Entertainment Myself Sing Try
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
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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Beautiful Lady Life Myself Start Woman
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’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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Goodness Horrible Music Myself
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Black Foundation Taste Water White
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 wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Connection Emotional Guitar Human
You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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Death Goodness Time Live Yourself
I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Afford Alcohol Myself Wine
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Day Forever Live Myself
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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Day Music Myself People Price Record Stop
Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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Expensive Spent Wisdom
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.
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Hard Work Room Scale Sleep Try

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

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