black
grey
blue
red
brown
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

B. B. King

There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
B. B. KING

Happiness Kind Music Sadness Yourself
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
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Beautiful Inspirational Learning Motivational Yourself
I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Afford Alcohol Myself Wine
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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Family Growth Man Myself Stand Teaching
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Friendship Music Myself
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
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Friendship Guitar Myself Old
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
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing
If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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People Song Way Yourself
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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Beginning Mom Music Source
It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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Instrument Music Myself Play Style Way
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
I can’t think of anyone I’ve mistreated. I’ve always thought that I am my brother’s keeper. And I believe there’s a ‘great spirit’ that takes care of all of us.
B. B. KING

Believe Care Greatness Ourselves Thinking Treat

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

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