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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

B. B. King

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
Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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Guitar One Liner Play Truth
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
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
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Black Sing Time
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
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
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Connection Emotional Guitar Human
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
Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
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Beautiful Country Leaving Myself People Scene
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
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
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Friendship Music Myself
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
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
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing

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