I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
B. B. KINGJanis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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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’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.
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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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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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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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