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. KINGMusic 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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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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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 don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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When I was young, I didn’t play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I’ve reached. Think what they might do over time.
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