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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.

B. B. King

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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Mindset Myself Oral Play Sing
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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Family Growth Man Myself Stand Teaching
Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Education Oneself Yourself
I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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Guess Man Myself Name Old
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Friendship Guitar Myself Old
I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Children Myself Yourself
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Death Music People Problem
A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Believe People Talk
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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Care Idol Play Try Yourself
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
If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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People Song Way Yourself
The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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Beginning Mom Music Source
I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.
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Audience Kind Myself Night Personality Time
Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let’s get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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Goodness Music Myself Savage Thinking
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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Life Missing Yourself
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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Day Music Myself People Price Record Stop
Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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Herself Love Lying Mom
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
When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!
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Death God Leaving Myself Prayer Sleep Stage Way
Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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Acceptance Evidence Explanation Natural People Problem Religion Universe
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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Blood Connection Music Myself
God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Creation God Music Woman
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’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Divorce Marriage Myself Woman
Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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Blood Brother Music Myself
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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Believe Care Greatness Ourselves Thinking Treat
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Black Sing Time

Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.

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