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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

B. B. King

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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Count Missing Myself Play
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.
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Bank Goodness Money People Sing Yourself
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Friendship Music Myself
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
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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Life Missing Yourself
I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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Feeling Love Passion Performance Show
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
The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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Laughter Live Love Music
I never use that word, retire.
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Myself Retirement Word
Music 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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Goodness Music Myself Savage Thinking
I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Divorce Marriage Myself 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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Children Love Music People Problem See Shame Yourself
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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Entertainment Myself Sing Try
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
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!
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Death God Leaving Myself Prayer Sleep Stage Way

Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

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