I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KINGMany 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.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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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When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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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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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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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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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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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