Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
B. B. KINGJanis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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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 gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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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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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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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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Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
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