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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.

B. B. King

I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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Goodness Horrible Music Myself
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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People Song Way Yourself
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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Hard Work Room Scale Sleep Try
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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Creation Myself Sound
I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Afford Alcohol Myself Wine
May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Day Forever Live Myself
The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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Beginning Mom Music Source
Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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Guitar One Liner Play Truth
When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!
B. B. KING

Death God Leaving Myself Prayer Sleep Stage Way
I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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Knowledge Man Myself Thinking Wisdom
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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Brother College Learning Man Music Myself Play
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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Feeling Freedom Lunch Myself Pay Responsibility
The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don’t know how much I appreciate it.
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Appreciation Crowd Myself Name People Treat
Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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Expensive Spent Wisdom
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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Beautiful Lady Life Myself Start Woman

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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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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