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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.

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
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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Connection Guitar Myself Try Voice
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
I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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Angry Friendship Myself
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
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Black Sing Time
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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Brother College Learning Man Music Myself Play
I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Children Myself Yourself
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
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
B. B. KING

Acceptance Evidence Explanation Natural People Problem Religion Universe
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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Appreciation Crowd Myself Name People Treat
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
Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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Greatness Guitar Himself World
It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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Instrument Music Myself Play Style Way
Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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Herself Love Lying Mom

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