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.
B. B. KINGI don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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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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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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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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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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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.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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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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Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let’s get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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