I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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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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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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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I’d rather be B.B. King. That’s the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other … I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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