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.
B. B. KINGIt 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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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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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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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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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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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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