And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
B. B. KINGYou never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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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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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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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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It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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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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There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
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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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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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