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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

B. B. King

Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
B. B. KING

Beautiful Country Leaving Myself People Scene
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
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
We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
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Animal Help Nature Need Ourselves Planet Protect World
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.
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Children Love Music People Problem See Shame Yourself
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.
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Feeling Good Health Myself People Way
I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Children Myself Yourself
Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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Blood Brother Music Myself
The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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Laughter Live Love Music
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
Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I’d go back next Saturday.
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Joint Money Myself Time
Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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Blue Himself Love Unique
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
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
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Friendship Music Myself
Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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Expensive Spent Wisdom

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