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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

B. B. King

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
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.
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Happiness Kind Music Sadness Yourself
I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Myself Perspective Steal Thinking
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Connection Emotional Guitar Human
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Friendship Guitar Myself Old
I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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Connection Guitar Myself Try Voice
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
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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Bank Goodness Money People Sing Yourself
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing
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 afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Afford Alcohol Myself Wine
I’d rather be B.B. King. That’s the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other … I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.
B. B. KING

Better heavy Myself Play Start Way
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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Family Hard Time Hurt Myself Necessary People Possible
I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good – he’s rock’s #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.
B. B. KING

Better Goodness Guitar Himself Music Myself Play
The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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Laughter Live Love Music
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

I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

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