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

B. B. King

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.
B. B. KING

Happiness Kind Music Sadness Yourself
Hard times don’t necessarily mean being poor all the time. I’ve known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that’s as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
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Family Hard Time Hurt Myself Necessary People Possible
Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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Expensive Spent Wisdom
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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Ground Money Place Worry Yourself
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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Feeling Freedom Lunch Myself Pay Responsibility
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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Blood Connection Music Myself
You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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Death Goodness Time Live Yourself
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Friendship Guitar Myself Old
A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Believe People Talk
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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Joint Money Myself Time
Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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Guitar One Liner Play Truth
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Black Foundation Taste Water White
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
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.
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Feeling Good Health Myself People Way
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
God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Creation God Music Woman

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

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