Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
B. B. KINGIf you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
More B. B. King Quotes
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I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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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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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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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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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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don’t know how much I appreciate it.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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