I never use that word, retire.
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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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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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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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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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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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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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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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.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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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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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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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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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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