The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KINGGrowing 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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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 don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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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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Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I’d go back next Saturday.
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I never use that word, retire.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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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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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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