Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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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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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 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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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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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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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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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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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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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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 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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