If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KINGWhen 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 tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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I can’t think of anyone I’ve mistreated. I’ve always thought that I am my brother’s keeper. And I believe there’s a ‘great spirit’ that takes care of all of us.
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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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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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 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 don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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