The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
B. B. KINGThe blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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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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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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I never use that word, retire.
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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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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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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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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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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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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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