God made Blues right after he made woman.
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 blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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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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I’d rather be B.B. King. That’s the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other … I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.
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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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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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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good – he’s rock’s #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.
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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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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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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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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I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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I never use that word, retire.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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