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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

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
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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Family Growth Man Myself Stand Teaching
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
Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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Herself Love Lying Mom
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
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
Hard times don’t necessarily mean being poor all the time. I’ve known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that’s as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
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Family Hard Time Hurt Myself Necessary People Possible
May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Day Forever Live Myself
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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Entertainment Myself Sing Try
Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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Expensive Spent Wisdom
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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Life Missing Yourself
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Believe People Talk
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Connection Emotional Guitar Human
If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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People Song Way Yourself
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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Blood Connection Music Myself

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.

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