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I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.

B. B. King

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
Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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Herself Love Lying Mom
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
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
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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Brother College Learning Man Music Myself Play
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing
I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Afford Alcohol Myself Wine
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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Blood Connection Music Myself
A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Believe People Talk
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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Creation Myself Sound
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 do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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Feeling Love Passion Performance Show
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
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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Appreciation Crowd Myself Name People Treat
When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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Mindset Myself Oral Play Sing
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Death Music People Problem

I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.

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I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.

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